<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Some Algonquianists may find this documentation of lip pointing in one of our videos of natural group conversation helpful.</div><div>Apologies for not being able to post this during the original exchange. </div><div><br></div><div>The speaker is Deanna Francis. This was the only instance of many filming sessions where she employed lip pointing so clearly. It may have had to do with the need to clarify who she was referring to.</div><div>Comments on the video documentation would be appreciated. </div><div><br></div><div>Context: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></b></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> Dialog Summary:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Antoinette has just described being strangled <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">by a nun for speaking Passamaquoddy in school.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Guest, Deanna Francis, comments.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Note: the clip is played first in real time</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">and then repeated at 60% slo motion.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>Address for lip pointing video:</o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><a href="http://vimeo.com/62880724">http://vimeo.com/62880724</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> Password: DF</o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Summary of Deanna's comment:</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Deanna comments on the injustice…</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>At the moment of lip pointing she is saying:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“It is so well put; how he did it.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>She is referring to Ben Levine who is filming</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">just to her left.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> ------</o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Selections from the original conversation can be seen</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">on the Maliseet –Passamaquoddy Portal<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.PMPortal.com">www.PMPortal.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The name of the original clip is: ”The Nun Would Always Tell Me, Don’t Speak Passamaquoddy”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">direct address:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://pmportal.org/videos/nun-would-always-tell-me-dont-speak-passamaquoddy">http://pmportal.org/videos/nun-would-always-tell-me-dont-speak-passamaquoddy</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">It is an excerpt from a larger conversation entitled "Cards and Memories<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Filmed in 2007 by Ben Levine, CoPI and Julia Schulz, Endangered Language consultant<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Robert Leavitt, CoPI<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">For more information on the Portal or the Language Keepers <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">resources for endangered language documentation<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>please see<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><a href="http://www.speakingplace.org">www.speakingplace.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Funding
for the dictionary, Language Keepers, and the Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Language
Portal was provided by the National Science Foundation. These publications are
based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No.
9601540, 0001949, 0553791, and 0853658. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions
or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do
not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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