MesoSpace Data - Mesbilja'
Datos de MesoSpace - Mesbilja'
Object Details
| Subject Language | Tzeltal |
| Language PID(s) | ailla:119666 |
| Title [Indigenous] | |
| Language of Indigenous Title | |
| Title | MesoSpace Data - Mesbilja' |
| Language Community | Tseltal de Oxchuc |
| Country(ies) | Mexico |
| Place Created | Mesbilja', Oxchuc, Chiapas, México |
| Date Created | 2009-02-24 |
| Description [Indigenous] | |
| Language of Indigenous Description | |
| Description | "This folder contains audio and video recordings (in WAV and MPG formats) and time-aligned XML transcriptions (in EAF format) of trials of three related experiments investigating the frames of reference used by speakers of Tseltal. In the Ball and Chair task, two speakers are seated together at a table, facing the same direction, with a screen between them preventing visual contact. Facing direction varied across places and across pairs, except for Mesbilja’ where all pairs faced west. On the table, two identical sets of twelve photographs featuring a chair and a ball in various configurations are arranged. One of the two participants acts as the director and the other as the matcher. The director picks up any one of the photographs and describes it, talking with the matcher until the matcher finds the matching photograph. Once all photographs have been matched, another set is presented. Four sets are successively laid on the table, 48 photographs in total. In the Little Animals task, participants describe configurations of toy animals so that a fellow participant on the other side of a screen can arrange their own set of animals to match. Once the ‘matcher’ has finished, the ‘director’ checks their configuration and if necessary replaces the screen and provides additional instructions to the matcher until the director feels they have formed the matching configuration. Thus, the director produces propositions that orient the figures and locate them within the configuration. After each trial, the roles change such that the director becomes the matcher and vice versa. In the Chunches task, participants were presented with a sequence of novel plastic objects of unfamiliar shapes (referred to as ""chunches""). One participant's chunche was affixed with pieces of modelling clay, and they had to instruct their fellow participant on the other side of a screen on where to place the bits of clay on their own identical chunche. Adapted from Polian and Bohnemeyer (2011) and Moore (2018:39ff). All file names begin with a date code in YYMMDD format, and most contain the following elements (whose order may vary): the name of the town where the recordings were made (Mesbilja'), the initials or names of the research participants, the name of the task being performed (""B&C"" for ""Ball and Chair"", ""chunche"", or ""animalitos""), and a reference number for the recording. Some recordings contain trials of more than one experiment. During curation at AILLA, spaces in file names were converted into underscores." |
| Genres | Dataset |
| Source Note | |
| References | Polian, Gilles and Juergen Bohnemeyer. 2011. Uniformity and variation in Tseltal reference frame use. Language Sciences. Vol. 33, pp 868-891. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2011.06.010 Jürgen Bohnemeyer, Elena Benedicto, Alejandra Capistrán Garza, Katharine T. Donelson, Alyson Eggleston, Néstor Hernández Green, María de Jesús Selene Hernández Gómez, Jesse S. Lovegren, Carolyn K. O’Meara, Enrique Palancar, Gabriela Pérez Báez, Gilles Polian, Rodrigo Romero Méndez, y Randi E. Tucker. 2011. Marcos de referencia en lenguas mesoamericanas: Un análisis multivariante tipológico. Memorias del V Congreso de Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica, 6-8 de octubre de 2011, Universidad de Texas en Austin. |
| Contributor(s) Individual / Role | Polian, Gilles (Researcher) |
| Contributor(s) Corporate / Role |
