\nocite{Korn2017}All texts are based on material stemming from field work by Ilya Gershevitch in Iran in 1956 and belonging to the AIIT IG Bashkardi archive (cf.\@ the description in \bcite{Korn2015}). This archive contains the recordings made by Ilya Gershevitch, his field notes and material (mostly handwritten) of his subsequent work on the data.

For texts A, B, and C (IG At3.1\tnd3) there is a handwritten transcription with some notes by Ilya Gershevitch in the archive (bundle \dqt{Tape I}).
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For texts A, B, C, and D there are sound files available in the archive. Texts A\tnd C reoccur on another tape (B6t1), where the beginning of text A is missing.
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Not using Gershevitch's notes, Bakhtiar Seddiqi Nejad in cooperation with Behrooz Barjasteh Delforooz produced preliminary transcriptions of the sound files and translations into Persian of A and D (as sound files).
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Based on these materials, Agnes Korn elaborated a considerably revised transcription (checked several times against the soundfiles) to reflect what she hears on the recordings, and a morphosyntactic analysis (using Flex software).
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For text E, there are two draft versions (one typed, one handwritten) by Ilya Gershevitch, containing his transcription and English translation (folder \dqt{Tape}).
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The transcription here is adjusted to Korn's system, for instance attaching pronominal clitics to the preceding words by a hyphen and similar conventions.
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All translations in the present data set use the materials just mentioned, but differ from these to reflect Korn's understanding of the texts, their morphosyntax, and textual structure (Korn's numberings are likewise included).
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Information on the accents noted by Ilya Gershevitch is not included in this project.
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The texts are all previously unpublished.\footnote{In \tcite[97]{Korn2017}, text A is called \sqt{The Journey}, text B \sqt{Loading Camels}, and text C \sqt{Dialogue}.}

Texts A, B, and C (IG At1.1\tnd3) seem to have been recorded in the same setting, perhaps even on the same occasion.
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Apparently Ilya Gershevitch is with the Kadxodâ of Jakdân, who is trying to motivate villagers to talk to Gershevitch, that is to the tape recorder (the tape recorder is probably referred to in A 41\tnd44). 
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The speaker of text D (IG B2t35) describes himself as being from Parmont, but he mentions having come to Bandar Abbâs to lodge a complaint.
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It is thus possible that the recording was made in Bandar Abbâs, which could explain some dialect mixture.
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There are no metadata available for text E (IG Sp2Gour) other than Ilya Gershevitch's title \dqt{Gourečī specimen} on the drafts (see above).

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The coordinates for the location of Parmont (text D) are somewhat pseudo-exact, as no place of a fitting name is to be found on current maps; they are those of the (on an officially looking map in Gershevitch's material) place Yamasûr, on the location of which there are houses to be seen on recent satellite images.
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There is a Parmân on the map, but at this location there are no houses on the satellite image.
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In \tcite{Gershevitch1959}, there is a map that has Parmônt as a region; this region includes the coordinates given here.

The original data coding undertaken by Agnes Korn includes some additional information and colour-coding, which were not included in the version used for cross-corpus comparison. However, the original spreadsheet containing this original information is available on the WOWA website.\footnote{\url{https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/resources/wowa/data/iranian/bashkardi_southern/southern-bashkardi__original-coding.xlsx}}
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In Korn's numbering system, the \dqt{token} count does not include the data lines with extra-textual information (such as \dqt{interruption}), but does include everything which is text (also text in Persian, other speakers saying \dqt{yes} etc., all of which are then counted as non-analysed tokens).

\nocite{Gershevitch1956a,Gershevitch1956b}


%\nocite{Korn2017}All texts are based on material stemming from fieldwork by Ilya Gershevitch in Iran in 1956, which is now part of the AIIT IG Bashkardi archive (cf.\@ the description in \bcite{Korn2015}). This archive contains the recordings made by Gershevitch, his field notes and other material related to his subsequent work on the data, mostly in handwritten form. The texts were all previously unpublished.
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%For texts A, B, and C there exist handwritten transcriptions with some notes by Gershevitch in the archive (in bundle \dqt{Tape I}).
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%For these three texts as well as text D, there are also sound files available.
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%Independently of Gershevitch's notes, Bakhtiar Seddiqi Nejad in cooperation with Behrooz Barjasteh Delforooz produced preliminary transcriptions of the sound files and translations into Persian of texts A and D.
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%Based on these materials, Agnes Korn elaborated a considerably revised transcription, checked closely against the sound files, to reflect what she hears in the recordings.\footnote{In \tcite[97]{Korn2017}, text A is called \sqt{The Journey}, text B \sqt{Loading Camels}, and text C \sqt{Dialogue}.} Korn also produced the morphosyntactic analysis.
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%For text E, there exist two draft versions by Gershevitch, one typed and one handwritten.
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%These contain both his transcription and an English translation. The transcription here is adjusted to Korn's system, so that, for instance, pronominal clitics are attached to the preceding words by a hyphen, and similar conventions.
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%All translations in this WOWA data set are based on the materials just mentioned, but have been adjusted to reflect Korn's understanding of the texts, their morphosyntax, and textual structure. Information on accents noted by Gershevitch is not included in this project.
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%Texts A, B, and C seem to have been recorded in the same setting, perhaps even on the same occasion. Gershevitch was apparantely accompanied by the Kadxodâ of Jakdân, who is trying to motivate the villagers to talk to Gershevitch.
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%There are no metadata available for text E other than Gershevitch's title (\dqt{Gourečī specimen}) in his drafts.
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%The speaker of text D describes himself as being from a village called Parmont, but he mentions having come to Bandar Abbâs to lodge a complaint. It is thus possible that the recording was made in Bandar Abbâs, which could explain some dialect mixture. 
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%The coordinates for the location of Parmont given above had to be half-guessed, as no place with a fitting name could be found on current maps. The coordinates given are those of Yamasûr, which is included on an official-looking map in Gershevitch's material. In this location, there are houses to be seen on recent satellite images; while there is a \dqt{Parmân} on the map, at this location no dwellings are visible in the satellite imagery. In \tcite{Gershevitch1959}, there is a map that has \dqt{Parmônt} as a region; this region encompasses the coordinates given here for text D.
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%Note that the token count given above does not include rows of data containing extra-textual information (such as interruptions), but does capture everything else that is text, including text in Persian, other speakers saying \dqt{yes}, and so on, all of which are then counted as non-analysed tokens.
