Whitehorn Collection
Overview
These are audio recordings contributed by John Whitehorn to the World Oral Literature project: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/collections/1240188b-2f4c-401e-9372-58177440d9c6. The recordings were mostly collected in the 1960s. Dates are available in the PDFs (found in the repository) but have not yet been incorporated into the XMLs.
The recordings are not transcribed, and many are songs.
They are mostly Paiwan but also some Atayal, Seediq, and Amis.
Corpus Statistics
Amis unknown
Paiwan Southern
Paiwan unknown
Atayal unknown
Seediq unknown
Word count
0
0
0
0
0
Total audio
0.2h
0.1h
12.4h
0.5h
0.1h
Transcribed
0
0
0
0
0
Untranscribed
0.2h
0.1h
12.4h
0.5h
0.1h
Translated words
English
0
0
0
0
0
Mandarin
0
0
0
0
0
Japanese
0
0
0
0
0
Dutch
0
0
0
0
0
Morphologically segmented
0
0
0
0
0
Glossed words
0
0
0
0
0
Corpus Processing
N/A
Corpus Notes
Recording quality is about what you would expect, given the age.
The recordings are not transcribed, so each XML file carries record-level metadata and an audio link, with no sentence tiers.
Whitehorn labels 46 of the Paiwan recordings "north-west", written variously as
(NW),(? NW),(north-west)and(north-west dialect). Northwest is not one of FormosanBank's Paiwan dialects, so those records carrydialect="unknown"rather than being mapped onto Northern. Only two recordings state a dialect FormosanBank recognises, and both are Southern Paiwan.One tape has no XML record. The accession form for
Whitehorn_Paiwan_03A_01describes a BBC Radio 3 broadcast from February 1993, Songs to help the crops grow — eight chants assigned by item number to Bunun (nos. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6), Amis (nos. 4, 8) and Atayal (no. 7) — but gives times for the tape side only as a whole,00.00toc.19.00. Without per-track times it cannot be split into one record per language, so the released master is published as an audio extra only. Those Bunun chants are the only Bunun material in the collection.
Access Details
The repo containing the Whitehorn Collection in FormosanBank as well as PDFs of Whitehorn's notes can be found here.
Copyright
CC BY-NC 4.0
Citation
In accordance with our Terms of Use, if you use this corpus or any product derived from this corpus in any publication, you must cite both FormosanBank and:
Whitehorn, J. (n.d.). Whitehorn: Paiwan collection. Retrieved February 24, 2025, from https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/collections/1240188b-2f4c-401e-9372-58177440d9c6 and https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/collections/dc1f2cd8-36da-48e1-979b-fe478eff6a91
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