Route descriptions - Transcriptions

Descripciónes de las rutas - Transcripciones

Object Details

Subject LanguageZapotec, Isthmus
Language PID(s)ailla:119576
Title [Indigenous]
Language of Indigenous Title
TitleRoute descriptions - Transcriptions
Language CommunityIsthmus Zapotec
Country(ies)Mexico
Place CreatedIsthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico
Date Created2015-01-14
Description [Indigenous]
Language of Indigenous Description
DescriptionAdapted from Moore (2018:133ff)

To investigate what specific landmarks might be known to speakers and salient enough to be used in direction-giving, a route-description referential communication task was undertaken. Speakers were instructed to think of a place, then describe a route toward that place such that a partner could guess the identity of that place. Participants were separated by a curtain to prevent the use of facial or manual gestures in completing the task. This method therefore elicited route descriptions that contain local landmarks that are (presumably) salient for speakers.

This task was conducted with 5 pairs of speakers in each community. The task was audio- and videorecorded.

Recordings made in in La Ventosa contain "LAV", those made in Juchitán de Zaragoza contain "JCH", and those made in Santa María Xadani contain "XAD". Filenames also contain references to the numbers used to identify the speakers (two sequential numbers separated by a hyphen) and a date code in MMDDYYYY format.
GenresElicitation
Instructions
Source Note
ReferencesMoore, Randi. 2018. Spatial language and cognition in Isthmus Zapotec. Dissertation. University at Buffalo. http://hdl.handle.net/10477/78086
Contributor(s) Individual / RoleMoore, Randi (Researcher, Analyst)
Cardona, Pedro (Transcriber, Translator)
Contributor(s) Corporate / Role

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There are 15 objects in this resource
ObjectFile TypesAccess Level
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ER_JCH_3-4_01142015.eafapplication/xml1
ER_JCH_5-6_01142015.eafapplication/xml1
ER_JCH_7-8_01142015.eafapplication/xml1
ER_JCH_9-10_01142015.eafapplication/xml1
ER_LAV_1-2_01192015.eafapplication/xml1
ER_LAV_3-4_01192015.eafapplication/xml1
ER_LAV_5-6_01192015.eafapplication/xml1
ER_LAV_7-8_01192015.eafapplication/xml1
ER_LAV_9-10_01192015.eafapplication/xml1
ER_XAD_1-2_01162015.eafapplication/xml1
ER_XAD_3-4_01162015.eafapplication/xml1
ER_XAD_5-6_01162015.eafapplication/xml1
ER_XAD_7-8_01162015.eafapplication/xml1
ER_XAD_9-10_01162015.eafapplication/xml1

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