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Grassfields Bantu Fieldwork: Ngomba Tone Paradigms

Item Name: Grassfields Bantu Fieldwork: Ngomba Tone Paradigms
Authors: Steven Bird and John Bell
LDC Catalog No.: LDC2001S16
ISBN: 1-58563-216-3
Release Date: Dec 22, 2002
Data Type: speech
Data Source(s): field recordings, microphone speech
Project(s): Talkbank
Language(s): Ngomba
Language ID(s): jgo
Distribution: 1 CD
Member fee: $0 for 2001, 2002 members
Non-member Fee: US $150.00
Reduced-License Fee: US $150.00
Extra-Copy Fee: US $150.00
Non-member License: yes
Online documentation: yes
Licensing Instructions: Subscription Members, Standard Members, Non-Members
Citation: Steven Bird and John Bell
2002
Grassfields Bantu Fieldwork: Ngomba Tone Paradigms
Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia

Introduction

Grassfields Bantu Fieldwork: Ngomba Tone Paradigms was produced by Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2001S16 and ISBN 1-58563-216-3. Please see below for information regarding its collection, processing, and contents.

The data contains tone paradigms of the language Ngomba, a Bamileke (Grassfields Bantu) language spoken by some 63,000 people in the Western Province of Cameroon. Ngombas tone system is undescribed, but it has many similarities with the closely related Yémba language (also known as Bamileke Dschang).

Data

This publication contains 755 audio files. The files in rawdata are 21 extended audio and laryngograph recordings with ESPS xlabel files each one of the raw sound files contains the complete recording of one of the tenses. The files in paradigms are HTML indexes linked to 734 one to three second audio clips in .wav format. Each HTML page lists 32 utterances, varying across subject, verb, and object. Transcriptions are provided for the audio clips using the IPA-based orthography, and using phonetic and tonological transcription systems.

Recorded: June 21, 1997, Recording Studio of SIL Cameroon, Yaoundé

Digitized, Labelled and Segmented: 1997-1998 Phonetics Laboratory, University of Edinburgh

Transcribed and Annotated: 1998-2001 LDC, University of Pennsylvania

Sponsorship:
SIL Cameroon
Economic and Social Research Council (UK) Grant R000235540
National Science Foundation (US) Grant 9983258
National Science Foundation (US) TalkBank Project Grant BCS-998009, KDI, SBE
Linguistic Data Consortium

Online Materials

The verbal tone paradigms are also accessible over the internet, along with an interface for browsing and editing transcriptions, at http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Projects/grassfields.

Updates

There are no updates available at this time.

Note

The cost of the first 100 copies of this publication (not counting the copies distributed to LDC members) is covered by NSF Grant Number 9983258, and therefore free of charge to qualified researchers a $30 shipping and handling fee applies. After these first 100 copies are distributed, additional copies will be available for the production cost of $150 per CD.

Content Copyright

Portions © 2001 Steven Bird and John Bell.

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