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Transcription: [00:07:24]
{SPEAKER name="Georgeda Buchbinder Bick"}
We have some linguistic information

[00:07:28]
{SPEAKER name="Mario Bick"}
Answers to your questions from Miss Takaki who's sitting here grinning. [[laughs]]

[00:07:36]
{SPEAKER name="Michiko Takaki "}
Alan, we've listened to those vowels together. But please let me write to you about them, with such a great audience around me, I could hardly articulate myself.
[00:07:44]

Jean, Would you say a few words to Alan? Would you say a few words to Alan?

{SPEAKER name="Georgeda Buchbinder Bick"}
Oh Alan, I've just listened to your tape and I, my opinion is that it sounds exactly like the people about everything sounds the same to me [[laughing]], there is absolutely no difference in those vowels.
[00:08:03]

[[inaudible crosstalk]]

[00:08:10]

{SPEAKER name="Mario Bick"}
Alan, I have one question, Michiko said that you've visited the Leakeys and I, I've been very curious as to what has happened to Leakeys control over the work in Alderay [[?]]
[00:08:20]
with Tanganyikan independence, and what, in what way he is regarded there. Maybe it's not a good question to put on tape, but uh, how the government regards him at the moment,
[00:08:30]
I have a sneaking suspicion that he may have trouble in Kenya, and I was just wondering what's going to happen him in Tanganyika, you might have heard something about it because, ah, it might influence some things I've heard about going on here. Anyway, uh, if you do have some information I would enjoy hearing it, if at no other time than when you get back here in February

[00:08:51] uh, when you do, you have an open invitation to come up, and even for pay, to talk at the University of Massachusetts. Uh we probably can work out some kind of deal and I would like to see you. Uhm, and I return you again to your sponsors.
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[[crosstalk]]


[00:09:18]
{SPEAKER name="Michiko Takaki"}
Alan, this is the end of the recording at the conference place. Mario and his wife, Georgeda, came into New Haven last night, and I had just received your tape.
[00:09:31]
Something was wrong on the second side. On my tape, on my machine, I was able to hear you, only behind, somebody else, a native person speaking. So I decided I would take the tape with me and have [[Howe?]]
[00:09:50] identify those vowels and
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