Grassfields Bantu Fieldwork: Ngomba Tone Paradigms

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

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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 under the normal terms and costs.

Portions © 2001 Steven Bird and John Bell, © 2001 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania