Exploratory vocabulary collection session (speaker M28; Labai dialect)

Work with Lamu Gatusa only extended over two sessions, on August 11th and August 12th, 2009. The second session was recorded. This is an exploratory elicitation session: the items were transcribed as they were being said; the speaker and the investigator discussed in Chinese over the meaning of words, cases of homophony, issues of transcription, and so on. The purpose was to devise a first version of a transcription system in the International Phonetic Alphabet, which Mr. Lamu would then use (and develop further) for transcribing Na stories, proverbs and rituals and preparing annotated bilingual editions. A note about Mr. Lamu Gatusa's name: his name in Na is /lɑ˧mbv˧ kɤ˧tʰv˥sɑ˥/. The phonetic approximation of this Na name in Mandarin Chinese is Lamu Gatusa (Chinese characters: 拉木•嘎吐萨). His pen-name is 石高峰: Shi Gaofeng.