Tone in Avatime 0136-Tone in Avatime A description and documentation of Avatime

Elicitation session with Yao to determine the tone patterns of certain words, to determine how many tones Avatime has. Has been transcribed in ELAN by Saskia. I went through some words and phrases that according to Schuh (1995) and/or Ford (1971) have a mid tone somewhere (Ford's tone 2). I asked Yao if he knew the words, and asked him to put them in a sentence and whistle the sentence. I also asked him to compare the tones to tones in other words. The goal was to find out whether this mid tone or tone 2 occurs in Avatime, as we had difficulties identifying it. Questions and discussion are in English, language under discussion is Avatime. Language_Name: Avatime Language_Region: Africa Language_Country: Ghana Project_Status: Complete Year: 2008 Start_Date: 2008-05-01 End_Date: 2008-12-31