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Now showing 1851 - 1860 of 1978 collections.

Burmese: An introduction to the literary style

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Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Male and female native speakers voice the literary passages from the textbook.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Master is the cassette sent from the publisher. It constitutes one part of a cassette series divided into four parts, coded S, D, G and L. Note that it is not clear whether Okell's assistants on the writing of the textbook (U Saw Tun and Daw Khin Mya Swe) also added their voices to the recordings. Note: The WAVE file is now converted to MP3.
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Scottish Gaelic: Cowal (DM) (Hamp, 1984)

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Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Eric Hamp and David Clement, speaking English and using a questionnaire, evoke Gaelic tokens from Dugald MacFadyen.
Collection Technical Notes: 
This cassette is a dub made c. 1984 from an (unspecified) taped source. It was donated to the LLA by Hamp (c. 1986?). The two WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
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Scottish Gaelic: Kintyre (DK) (Hamp, 1984)

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Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Eric Hamp and David Clement, speaking English and using a questionnaire, evoke Gaelic tokens form Duncan MacKeith (from Kintyre) and Alasdair Baxter (from Cowal). [Note: the latter interview now has its own Collection.]
Collection Technical Notes: 
This cassette is a dub made c. 1984 from an (unspecified) taped source. It was donated to the LLA by Hamp (c. 1986?). The single WAVE file is now converted to MP3.
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Scottish Gaelic: Kintyre (GT) (Hamp, 1984)

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Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Hamp and Clement, speaking both Gaelic and English, elicit vocabulary (in the Muasdale dialect) from George Thomson.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Interview begins after 38 minutes on Side A of the cassette and concludes on Side B. The WAVE file has now been converted to MP3.
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Scottish Gaelic: Cowal (AB) (Hamp, 1984)

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Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Eric Hamp and David Clement, speaking English and using a questionnaire, evoke Gaelic tokens from Alasdair Baxter.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Master is Side B of the cassette titled "Scottish Gaelic: Kintyre (DK) (Hamp, 1984)". Note: The WAVE file is now converted to MP3.
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The Man-in-Nature Project; Tzotzil: Dos Lagunas recording (A. Medina, 1958)

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Collection Descriptive Notes: 
A. Medina reads from the standard vocabulary list (in Spanish), and the native speaker (male) supplies the Tzotzil equivalents. The dialect here is called "Tzotzil oriental".
Collection Technical Notes: 
Tape is the original field recording. Note: It is not clear whether the use of the Roman numeral "I" indicates that there is necessarily a "II". WAVE file is now converted to an MP3.
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Tzotzil: Chilil recording (1961)

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Collection Descriptive Notes: 
An American, speaking Spanish, puts vocabulary tokens to two native (male) speakers, who supply the Tzotzil equivalents in tandem. [Chilil is called a "subdivisión" of the "comunidad" of Huixtan. [Spellings are inconsistent.]
Collection Technical Notes: 
Tape is the original field recording.
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The Man-in-Nature Project; Tzeltal: Chanal recordings (1959 series)

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Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Andres Medina, speaking Spanish, administers the standard vocabulary list to a number of native speakers, who supply the Tzeltal equivalents.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Tapes are the original field-recorded tapes. WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
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Tzeltal: A collection of Andres Medina's Chanal interviews plus a session of band music (1959?)

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Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Andres Medina conducts interviews with a number of Chanal speakers; most of the second track consists of band music recorded at a party.
Collection Technical Notes: 
It is not clear whether the recordings are the live recordings or copies of other tapes. The two WAVE files have been converted to MP3s.
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Interview microanalysis; The Apley job interviews (with a pre-interview session) (1965)

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Collection Descriptive Notes: 
A businessman surnamed Apley conducts job interviews with three young male prospects. Before the interviews there is a "pre-interview" between Apley and a Mrs. Trotter, who profiles each prospect for Apley; Ledin then discusses the technical aspects of the recording/filming. (It is not clear whether the "pre-interview" was filmed.)
Collection Technical Notes: 
Tapes are audio recordings made in the Language Lab studio simultaneously with the filming of the interviews (film codes: CL003-1, CL003-2 & CL003-3). (The audio was later added to the films as the sound track.) The "Inventory of the Motion Picture Films..." (q.v.) states that these interviews were made for William [S.] Condon and Edward [T.] Hall. The WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
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