Collection details
Collection ID LWR1
Title Western Highlands Sign Languages
Description These are field tapes from work done with 12 deaf signers and a number of hearing signers living in the rural Nebilyer and Kaugel Valleys, Western Highlands, and in Mount Hagen. The data is analysed in Reed, Lauren W. (2019). Sign languages of Western Highlands and their challenges for sign language typology. Master's thesis. Australian National University, Canberra. doi.org/10.25911/5d69027b5d5f8
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/LWR1
Collector
Lauren Reed
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Operator Julia Colleen Miller
Originating university Australian National University
Countries
Papua New Guinea - PG
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Languages
English - eng
Bo-Ung - mux
Tok Pisin - tpi
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Region / village Western Highlands
DOI 10.26278/6S03-BA52
Cite as Lauren Reed (collector), 2015. Western Highlands Sign Languages. Collection LWR1 at catalog.paradisec.org.au [Open Access]. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/6S03-BA52

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Items in Collection (95)

Item Title Actions
20150115_01 Hunting for flying foxes View
20150115_02 Land dispute in 1982 involving Noma and Silka View
20150115_03 Story of how Kakuyl learned to sign View
20150115_04 Francesca asks whether Kakuyl was born deaf or not View
20150115_05 Kakuyl Kulup and son Pepsin Kakuyl View
20150115_06 Account of the origin of the Poison War of 2005-2007 View
20150126_01 Signing by Tilka Kumsiyl Lewa about how people go hunting in the forest View
20150126_02 Account by Lewa of the origin of the 2005-2007 [Poison] war View
20150126_03 Lewa explains how long he has been deaf (since birth) View
20150126_04 Kumsiyl Kakuyl tells what he did over the past two days and converses with Lewa about what both of them did View
20150126_05 An unelicited conversation between Kakuyl and Lewa, in which K. advises L. not to waste so much time at Kaiwe Market and Lewa agrees to spend more time at home. View
20150126_06 Lewa and Kakuyl play cards, game called 'Seven Bomb' View
20171101_01 In John Onga's yard View
20171101_02 Woodward Swadesh list View
20171101_03 How Kakuyl met his wife View
20171101_04 Going to Mindipu View
20171101_05 Preparations for visit View
20171104_01 How Kakuyl married Muna View
20171104_02 More about Sent's death and Kakuyl marrying Muna View
20171104_03 Kakuyl points out his children View
20171104_04 Kakuyl explains that at first he didn't have enough pigs or money to marry Muna View
20171104_05 Kakuyl explains how Muna picks coffee and uses the money for the children View
20171104_06 Kakuyl talks about watercress, oil (?); also about shopping in Hagen View
20171104_07 Talking about trees and money View
20171104_08 Asking whether Kakuyl can understand other deaf people around the area View
20171104_09 Kakuyl going to Lae View
20171104_10 Simon and John explain View
20171104_11 Kakuyl and his sons talk to one another View
20171104_12 Discussions about Lauren's coming in April 2018 View
20171104_13 Free conversation between Kakuyl and all of his children View
20180331_01 Ethics View
20180331_02 What we did yesterday View
20180331_03 Director-matcher task View
20180331_04 Mutual intelligibity with sign language from the Sina Sina Valley View
20180401_01 Sociolinguistic interview View
20180401_02 Kendon's Enga footage View
20180403_01 Dream interpretation View
20180403_02 Swadesh list View
20180403_03 Haifa clips View
20180403_04 Stories View
20180403_05 Checking signs from 2015 and 2017 View
20180405_01 Toka - consent and Swadesh list View
20180405_02 Toka - mutual intelligibity videos View
20180405_03 Toka - Kumsiyl Toka's family View
20180405_04 Toka - stories and Simon's photos View
20180405_05 Lewa - consent and introductions View
20180405_06 Lewa - Swadesh list and mutual intelligibility videos View
20180405_07 Lewa - mutual intelligibility and Director-matcher task View
20180405_08 Lewa - Director-matcher task View
20180406_01 Sala - consent and stories View
20180406_02 Sala - Swadesh list View
20180407_01 Kumsiyl Pus View
20180407_02 Dephanie Wengs and her mother Christina View
20180407_03 Dephanie Wengs View
20180407_04 Dephanie Wengs and her cousin Simon Kaiya View
20180407_05 Dephanie Wengs and Kakuyl Kulup View
20180408_01 Free conversation - community dispute View
20180408_02 Negotiations View
20180409_01 Free conversation - plans for Lauren to stay at Ukulu View
20180410_01 Peter Kerua and Kakuyl Kulup View
20180411_01 Classic elicitation View
20180411_02 Kakuyl Kulup and Kumsiyl Toka View
20180412_01 Free conversation with Dephanie, Simon and Christina View
20180412_02 EMTV Melanesian Sign Language interpreter View
20180414_01 Lewa Tebra - family tree and Swadesh list View
20180414_02 Wali - family tree and Swadesh list View
20180414_03 Tom yaya View
20180415_01 Kumsiyl Nonoma View
20180415_02 Free conversation between Nonoma, Wali and John View
20180416_01 Samtawa John View
20180416_02 Ausi View
20180416_03 Rachel Joseph View
20180418_01 Free conversation Kakuyl and family View
20180418_02 Chatting at Kakuyl's house View
20180418_03 Free conversation Kakuyl, Simon and Muna View
20180419_01 Free conversation Kakuyl and Nikindi View
20181113_01 Free conversation Kakuyl and John View
20181113_02 Free conversation Kakuyl and friends View
20181115_01 Free conversation Kakuyl and family View
20181116_01 Free conversation Kakuyl, Nikindi and Paulus Win View
20181116_02 Free interaction Kakuyl with friends and family View
20181118_01 Wordlist with John Onga View
20181118_02 Wordlist with Simon Kaiya View
20181118_03 Wordlist with Thomas Mek View
20181118_04 Free conversation Kakuyl and sons View
20181118_05 Kera walyipe (flying fox) story View
20181119_01 Free conversation Tilka Lewa and Pawa at Kumbu View
20181120_01 Wordlist with Raymond Pundia View
20181120_02 Wordlist with David Ako View
20181120_03 Wordlist with David Tendike View
20181120_04 Trying to find Muna fight story View
20181120_05 Kakuyl, Toka and others chat in John's yard View
20181120_06 Free conversation Toka and Moses Kut View
20181120_07 Wordlist with Samson Onga View
20181120_08 Wordlist with Jeffrey Paraga View

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