Picture Description Task ailoa0108 Documentation of Eibela

This is a recording of a picture naming task in which a participant was asked to describe an event shown in a picture. The resulting hand-written transcription and a recording of the transcription process is available in session ailoa0109. This project consists in the documentation of Eibela, also called Aimele (ISO-639 AIL), as part of a PhD project at James Cook University which will ultimately result in a grammar of the language along with a dictionary and a corpus of texts. Eibela is a severely endangered language with 300 speakers in Lake Campbell, Western Province in Papua New Guinea. The participant views the pictures and describes the event depicted. Dogudopu is an Eibela woman participating in the naming task, while Grant is a researcher showing the pictures and transcribing the resulting description. PhD Researcher conducting research on the Eibela language Date of birth is approximate.