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The song "Riwun Tihuk" is in an older form of the Hewa language. Young people don't understand all the words and the mea…
The song "Riwun Tihuk" is in an older form of the Hewa language. Young people don't understand all the words and the meaning of the song. The translation was given by Lambertus Melon Widin.
Eman is talking to Elgis and Arnol about a cross on a hill at Pantai Rako and about a ceremony to ask for rain. This dia…
Eman is talking to Elgis and Arnol about a cross on a hill at Pantai Rako and about a ceremony to ask for rain. This dialogue was not prepared in advance but it was somehow unnatural because it was initiated for the recording.
This is a story told for the recording by a 10 year old boy. The story is about a monkey and a frog that are competing i…
This is a story told for the recording by a 10 year old boy. The story is about a monkey and a frog that are competing in planting bananas at a river side. The recording has a length of 01:53 minutes.
This is the retelling of the picture book "Frog, where are you?" by Mercer Meyer. The story was prepared by my main info…
This is the retelling of the picture book "Frog, where are you?" by Mercer Meyer. The story was prepared by my main informant in Hewa, read out by her and recorded. The recording has a length of 03:15 minutes.
635 lexical entries + 287 subentries; Collection of lexical items
635 lexical entries + 287 subentries; Collection of lexical items
These are sentences elicited in Hewa using photo stimuli by Antoinette Schapper for the elicitation of numeral classifie…
These are sentences elicited in Hewa using photo stimuli by Antoinette Schapper for the elicitation of numeral classifiers. The photos show objects in a certain number. The informant is asked to tell how many of the objects are on the photo. This elicitation was recorded. The recording has a length of 36:29 minutes.
These are sentences describing spatial relations which were elicited in Hewa using picture stimuli provided by the May P…
These are sentences describing spatial relations which were elicited in Hewa using picture stimuli provided by the May Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. The stimuli can be accessed at http://fieldmanuals.mpi.nl/. This elicitation session was recorded. The length of the recording is 12:14 minutes.