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Cree cassettes for Louis Philippe Vaillancourt texts
Sub-subseries
64 audio cassettes (approximately 32 hours)
25 compact discs (approximately 17 hours)
Sub-series consists of lessons recorded on 35 cassettes with spine label Cree A3 and 29 cassettes labeled Cree A5 ; These correspond to the textbooks "Cours de Cris: Première Degré," and "Cours de Cris: Deuxième Degré." Both texts are authored by Louis-Philippe Vaillancourt, and published by Les Presses de l’Université du Quebéc.
The focus of instruction is Cree as spoken on the east coast of James Bay, and lessons are presented with the participation of residents from Wemindji and Eastmain. Lessons on the A3 cassettes center on building a basic vocabulary through listening and repetition, lessons on the A5 cassettes concentrate on transitive and intransitive verbs. The sub-series also contains one folder of plastic sleeves holding 25 compact discs. Discs are labeled to correspond to audio cassettes in the A3 series, likely from an earlier format transfer project.
Cassettes have typed labels indicating the correlation between individual tapes and lessons in the texts. Material recorded on one side only.
A3 Cassettes generally begin and end with song: these sections are often of lower sound quality than the rest of the cassette.
Orthography of written lessons is one developed by Louis- Philippe Vaillancourt using Kenneth L. Pike’s “practical alphabet” principle; the end of the "Deuxième Degré" text gives lessons in writing Cree using the Evans syllabics.
Companion French-Cree dictionary may be found at https://mcgill.on.worldcat.org/oclc/28255540
19-02-2024