Catalog
Recorded Events
Recorded Event: The dog that became a girl
Type: Conversation, Narrative: Contemporary Events
Primary Speech Variety: Mountain Arapesh: Wautogik variety
Secondary Speech Varieties: Tok Pisin
Date: 1998-10-12 Location: Wautogik Duration: 7:20
Description: A fantastic tale, sworn to be true, of a human-animal transformation in recent history
Note: narrative in Arapesh followed by conversation/interview in Tok Pisin about the events related
Participants
- Antonia Guaigu · Primary, (F : c 58) Wautogik ~ Fluent Arapesh speaker, married in from Bogumatai
- Dorote Rahiria · Secondary, (F : c 55) Wautogik ~ fluent Arapesh speaker, grade 6 education
- Joe Guaigu · Secondary, (M : 64) Wautogik ~ fluent Arapesh speaker, worked as grade 1 teacher before retiring
- Lise Dobrin · Researcher, (F : 32) ~ American linguist, born Chicago 1966. Graduate student (linguistics, University of Chicago).
- Matthew Rahiria · Secondary, (M : c 60) Wautogik ~ fluent Arapesh speaker, 2 years teacher's college, worked teaching school and as a headmaster before falling sick and retiring early
- Scola Suonin · Secondary, (F : 50) Wautogik ~ fluent Arapesh speaker, educated to grade 1
- Timothy Suonin · Secondary, (M : c 7) Wautogik ~
Tapes
Cassette cover scan (click to enlarge)
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WAV/ELAN Files
- The Dog that Became a Girl