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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Region / village
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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20150822_NM73A Samoan audio from 2015 - 73-year-old man in Neiafu-Tai View
20161013_NF54O Samoan audio from 2016 - 54-year-old woman in Neiafu-Tai View
20161013_NF57T Samoan audio from 2016 - 57-year-old woman in Neiafu-Tai View
20161013_NM18N_part1 Samoan audio from 2016 - 18-year-old man in Neiafu-Tai part 1 View
20161013_NM18N_part2 Samoan audio from 2016 - 18-year-old man in Neiafu-Tai part 2 View
20161013_NM19P Samoan audio from 2016 - 19-year-old man in Neiafu-Tai View
20161014_NF43S_frogstory Samoan audio from 2016 - 43-year-old woman in Neiafu-Tai frogstory View
20161014_NF43S_main Samoan audio from 2016 - 43-year-old woman in Neiafu-Tai main View
20161014_NF43S_wordlist Samoan audio from 2016 - 43-year-old woman in Neiafu-Tai wordlirst View
20161014_NM40S_part1 Samoan audio from 2016 - 40-year-old man in Neiafu-Tai part 1 View
20161014_NM40S_part2 Samoan audio from 2016 - 40-year-old man in Neiafu-Tai part 2 View
20161015_NM50Mo_NF29M_part1 Samoan audio from 2016 – one woman (29) and one man (50) in Neiafu part 1 View
20161015_NM50Mo_NF29M_part2 Samoan audio from 2016 – one woman (29) and one man (50) in Neiafu part 2 View
20161017_NF41T Samoan audio from 2016 - 41-year-old woman in Neiafu-Tai View
20161017_NF52Ta_part1 Samoan audio from 2016 - 52-year-old woman in Neiafu-Tai part 1 View
20161017_NF52Ta_part2 Samoan audio from 2016 - 52-year-old woman in Neiafu-Tai part 2 View
20161018_NF46S_part2 Samoan audio from 2016 - 46-year-old woman in Neiafu-Tai part 2 View
20161018_NF54O Samoan audio from 2016 - 54-year-old woman in Neiafu-Tai View
20161018_NM44V_NF40O Samoan audio from 2016 – one woman (40) and one man (44) in Neiafu View
20161021_NF71M_NM37V Samoan audio from 2016 – one woman (71) and one man (37) in Neiafu View
20161021_NM18I_NF48L Samoan audio from 2016 – one woman (48) and one man (18) in Neiafu View
20161024_NF36L Samoan audio from 2016 - 36-year-old woman in Neiafu-Tai View
20161024_NF57M_NF12L Samoan audio from 2016 – one woman (57) and one girl (12) in Neiafu View
20161026_NF46S Samoan audio from 2016 - 46-year-old woman in Neiafu-Tai View
20161026_NM19F Samoan audio from 2016 - 19-year-old Fa'afafine in Neiafu-Tai View
20161027_NF22F Samoan audio from 2016 - 22-year-old woman in Neiafu-Tai View
20161027_NM32S_NF52T Samoan audio from 2016 – one woman (52) and one man (32) in Neiafu View
20161027_NM32Tu Samoan audio from 2016 - 32-year-old man in Neiafu-Uta View
20161027_NM40P Samoan audio from 2016 - 40-year-old man in Neiafu-Uta View
20161028_NM31T Samoan audio from 2016 - 31-year-old man in Neiafu-Tai View
20161028_NM48M Samoan audio from 2016 - 48-year-old man in Neiafu-Tai View
20161031_NM21P_NM23T Samoan audio from 2016 – one man (21) and one man (23) in Neiafu View
20161031_NM29T Samoan audio from 2016 - 29-year-old man in Neiafu-Tai View
20161031_NM33F Samoan audio from 2016 - 33-year-old man in Neiafu-Tai View
20161101_NM50M Samoan audio from 2016 - 50-year-old man in Neiafu-Tai View
20161101_NM50Ms Samoan audio from 2016 - 50-year-old man in Neiafu-Tai View
20161102_NM17T Samoan audio from 2016 - 17-year-old man in Neiafu-Tai View
20161102_NM55F_NF51M Samoan audio from 2016 – one woman (51) and one man (55) in Neiafu View
20161103_NF17E_NF18V Samoan audio from 2016 – one woman (17) and one woman (18) in Neiafu View
20161103_NM20N Samoan audio from 2016 - 20-year-old man in Neiafu-Tai View
20161107_NF15I Samoan audio from 2016 - -year-old woman in Neiafu View
20161109_NM58P Samoan audio from 2016 - 58-year-old man in Neiafu-Tai View
20161110_NF24T Samoan audio from 2016 - 24-year-old woman in Neiafu-Tai View
20161203_TM64M Samoan audio from 2016 - 64-year-old man in Tufutafoe View
20161205_NF33U Samoan audio from 2016 - 33-year-old woman in Neiafu-Tai View
20161205_NF49F Samoan audio from 2016 - 49-year-old woman in Neiafu-Tai View
20161206_TF21F Samoan audio from 2016 - 21-year-old woman in Tufutafoe View
20161206_TF30T Samoan audio from 2016 - 30-year-old woman in Tufutafoe View
20161206_TF67S Samoan audio from 2016 - 67-year-old woman in Tufutafoe View
20161206_TM20T Samoan audio from 2016 - 20-year-old man in Tufutafoe View

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