Collection details
Collection ID HSS01
Title Samoan sociolinguistic interviews, wordlists and conversation
Description Recordings of Samoan informants on the island of Savai'i, collected in 2015 & 2016. Sociolinguistic interviews about family, education and community, wordlists, frog stories and some casual conversation based on open questions. Recorded by Hedvig Skirgård with the help of Samoan speaking assistants Melenesa Lutelu, Sega Momoemausu Esau and Saveve Ugapo Sai'o. Data collected for PhD thesis and the Wellsprings of Linguistic Diversity project.

The Wellsprings of Linguistic Diversity was a five year Laureate project awarded by the Australian Research Council to Professor Nicholas Evans within the School of Culture, History and Language in the College of Asia and the Pacific, at the Australian National University. The project ran from 2014 to 2019.

The project sought to address fundamental questions of linguistic diversity and disparity through an analysis of linguistic variation and change. The project addressed a crucial missing step in existing linguistic research by addressing the question of what drives linguistic diversification so much faster in some societies than in others. It did so by undertaking intensive, matched case studies of speech communities across Australia and the Pacific, allowing researchers to detect variations in languages as they occur and compare the amounts and types of variation found in different sorts of settings, with a particular focus on small-scale multilingual speech communities. It aimed to generate an integrated model of language variation and change, building in interactions between social and linguistic processes. The research findings offered insights into the enormous diversity of human experience, vital for fields as diverse as cognitive science, human evolutionary biology, anthropology and archaeology.
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/HSS01
Collector
Hedvig Skirgård
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Operator Julia Colleen Miller
Originating university Australian National University
Countries
Samoa - WS
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Languages
English - eng
Samoan - smo
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DOI 10.26278/GJ2B-EX63
Cite as Hedvig Skirgård (collector), 2015. Samoan sociolinguistic interviews, wordlists and conversation. Collection HSS01 at catalog.paradisec.org.au [Other Access]. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/GJ2B-EX63
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Items in Collection (74)

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20161206_TM53L Samoan audio from 2016 - 53-year-old man in Tufutafoe View
20161207_TF21L Samoan audio from 2016 - 21-year-old woman in Tufutafoe View
20161207_TF31S Samoan audio from 2016 - 31-year-old woman in Tufutafoe View
20161207_TF51V Samoan audio from 2016 - 51-year-old woman in Tufutafoe View
20161207_TF79T Samoan audio from 2016 - 79-year-old woman in Tufutafoe View
20161207_TM59V Samoan audio from 2016 - 59-year-old man in Tufutafoe View
20161208_TF43A_TM46S Samoan audio from 2016 – one woman (43) and one man (46) in Tufutafoe View
20161208_TM48T Samoan audio from 2016 - 48-year-old man in Tufutafoe View
20161208_TM70M Samoan audio from 2016 - 70-year-old man in Tufutafoe View
20161209_TF25M Samoan audio from 2016 - 25-year-old woman in Tufutafoe View
20161209_TF36I Samoan audio from 2016 - 36-year-old woman in Tufutafoe View
20161209_TM18M Samoan audio from 2016 - 18-year-old man in Tufutafoe View
20161213_FF32E Samoan audio from 2016 - 32-year-old woman in Falealupo-Tai View
20161213_FF62P Samoan audio from 2016 - 62-year-old woman in Falealupo-Tai View
20161213_FM53S Samoan audio from 2016 - 53-year-old man in Falealupo-Tai View
20161213_FM61U_part1 Samoan audio from 2016 - 61-year-old man in Falealupo-Tai part 1 View
20161213_FM61U_part2 Samoan audio from 2016 - 61-year-old man in Falealupo-Tai part 2 View
20161214_FF68F_FM64S Samoan audio from 2016 – one woman (68) and one man (64) in Falealupo View
20161214_FF70T Samoan audio from 2016 - 70-year-old woman in Falealupo-Tai View
20161215_NM56F_part1 Samoan audio from 2016 - 65-year-old man in Neiafu part 1 View
20161215_NM56F_part2 Samoan audio from 2016 - 65-year-old man in Neiafu part 2 View
20161220_NF40O Samoan audio from 2016 - 40-year-old woman in Neiafu-Tai View
metadata_sheet_per_person Metadata table, one row per person. View
wordlist Samoan minimal pairs wordlist View

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