Recordings of Raga - 2017-2018

Material collected in Loltong bay and Ahivo region, north Pentecost, Vanuatu, between 2017 and 2018, by Marie (Marie-France) Duhamel. Recordings from a wide range of speakers.

File-naming:
002-traditional story;
003-'danger' stories (relating cyclones, earthquakes);
004-other stories, SNG - songs, PIX - photos, AV - Video other than people telling stories
005-interviews of participants by a native speaker
ARA-stories about taboo garden

The Wellsprings of Linguistic Diversity was a five year Laureate project awarded by the Australian Research Council to Professor Nicholas Evans within the School of Culture, History and Language in the College of Asia and the Pacific, at the Australian National University. The project ran from 2014 to 2019.

The project sought to address fundamental questions of linguistic diversity and disparity through an analysis of linguistic variation and change. The project addressed a crucial missing step in existing linguistic research by addressing the question of what drives linguistic diversification so much faster in some societies than in others. It did so by undertaking intensive, matched case studies of speech communities across Australia and the Pacific, allowing researchers to detect variations in languages as they occur and compare the amounts and types of variation found in different sorts of settings, with a particular focus on small-scale multilingual speech communities. It aimed to generate an integrated model of language variation and change, building in interactions between social and linguistic processes. The research findings offered insights into the enormous diversity of human experience, vital for fields as diverse as cognitive science, human evolutionary biology, anthropology and archaeology.

本数据集的采集素材取自瓦努阿图彭特科斯特岛北部的洛尔通湾（Loltong bay）与阿希沃地区（Ahivo region），采集时间为2017年至2018年，采集者为玛丽（玛丽-弗朗斯）·迪阿梅尔（Marie (Marie-France) Duhamel），涵盖多位发言者的录音资料。

文件命名规则如下：
002-传统故事；
003-“危险”故事（涉及气旋、地震相关内容）；
004-其他故事、SNG-歌曲、PIX-照片、AV-非故事讲述类视频；
005-母语者对受访参与者的访谈；
ARA-禁忌园艺相关故事

《语言多样性之源》（The Wellsprings of Linguistic Diversity）是由澳大利亚研究理事会（Australian Research Council, ARC）授予澳大利亚国立大学亚太学院文化、历史与语言学院尼古拉斯·埃文斯教授的五年期桂冠项目，项目执行周期为2014年至2019年。

该项目旨在通过分析语言变异与语言演变，探究语言多样性与语言差异的核心议题。针对现有语言学研究中存在的关键空白，本项目聚焦于解答“为何部分社会的语言多样化速度远快于其他社会”这一问题。项目通过对澳大利亚与太平洋地区的言语社区开展精细化、匹配性的个案研究，使研究者得以直接观测语言变异的实际发生场景，并对比不同环境下语言变异的规模与类型，研究重点聚焦于小型多语言语社区。项目旨在构建融合社会进程与语言进程交互作用的语言变异与演变整合模型。本研究成果为认知科学、人类进化生物学、人类学与考古学等多个跨学科领域提供了关于人类经验多样性的重要学术洞见。

搜集汇总

背景与挑战

背景概述

该数据集是2017年至2018年在瓦努阿图北五旬节地区收集的Raga语言录音，包括传统故事、危险故事、歌曲、照片和视频，由Marie Duhamel整理。它是“The Wellsprings of Linguistic Diversity”项目的一部分，旨在研究语言变异和多样性，由澳大利亚研究理事会资助，并通过PARADISEC提供开放访问。