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Nilotic Prosody - People
The affiliation of the people listed below is The University of Edinburgh unless stated otherwise.
Current team members (Beyond Text Large Grant: Metre and Melody in Dinka Speech and Song)
| Elizabeth Achol Ajuet Deng | Collection and annotation of Dinka songs |
Elizabeth Achol Ajuet Deng in Edinburgh, September 2009, in the company of a festive cow. |
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| Angela Impey (School of Oriental and African Studies) | Music of southern and eastern Africa; music/sound, memory and place; music, advocacy and human rights; music and gender |
| John Penn de Ngong | Annotation of Dinka songs |
| D. Robert Ladd | Phonetic and phonological analysis of prosody |
| Cedric MacMartin | Development of electronic resource |
| Peter Malek Ayuel Ring | Collection and annotation of Dinka songs; production of Dinka song book for children |
The Beyond Text group in Juba, January 2010. From left: Angela Impey, Simon Yak Deng Yak, Peter Malek Ayuel Ring, John Penn de Ngong, Bert Remijsen, Akol Kongoor Reech. |
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| Miriam Meyerhoff | Sociolinguistics and language variation |
| Tatiana Reid | Descriptive research on Thok Reel, a Western Nilotic language; earlier: MScR dissertation on Thok Reel phonectics, phonology and morphophonology, and MA dissertation on Shilluk noun morphology |
| Bert Remijsen | Data collection & analysis on Dinka and Shilluk speech; day-to-day project management |
| Simon Yak Deng Yak | Collection and annotation of Dinka songs; analysis of Dinka songs |
Current research collaborators outside the Beyond Text project |
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| Leoma Gilley (SIL International) | Expertise on Shilluk and linguistic fieldwork in Sudan |
| Otto Gwado (Shilluk Language Council) | Data collection and analysis on Shilluk |
Participants in December 2008 - Tatiana Reid and Otto Gwado |
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| Cynthia L. Miller (University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of the Free State [Bloemfontein, South Africa]) | Expertise on Shilluk morphology and syntax |
Past team members |
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| Caguor Adong Manyang (U. of Bahr El-Ghazal) | Data collection on Dinka; expertise on Dinka |
| Akol Kongoor Reech | Expertise on Dinka |
| Peter Ladefoged (University of California, Los Angeles)- in memoriam | Expertise on phonetic fieldwork and analysis |
Participants in November 2005 - from left to right: Bert Remijsen, Bob Ladd, Michael Bennett, |
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| Tatiana Libman | MSc project on Shilluk word prosody |