You can find material on counting-out rhymes in New Zealand at our web-site for the Language in the Playgorund project, <http://www.vuw.ac.nz/lals/lip/>.
Laurie
Laurie Bauer
Professor of Linguistics
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600
Wellington
New Zealand
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> From: Andy Arleo
> Reply To: The Children's Folklore Mailing List
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 22:17 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: survey on counting-out rhymes
>
> Dear Childlorists,
>
> I am conducting a survey on counting-out rhymes, i.e. children> '> s rhymes
> used to designate, usually through elimination, a central player in
> games like tag or hide and seek. Below is a short questionnaire. I would
>
> greatly appreciate your help and will be happy to post a summary of the
> results.
>
> 1) language or dialect:
> 2) country, region or geographical area:
> 3) words for > "> counting-out rhyme> "> , > "> to count out> "> , > "> counting-out> "> , etc.:
>
> 4) name(s) of central player, often called > "> It> "> in English, who chases
> or seeks other players:
> 5) example(s) of (popular) counting-out rhymes used at present:
> 6) references to studies, collections and recordings:
> 7) observations concerning form (especially metrics and rhythm),
> content, function, sociolinguistic variables (age, sex, social class),
> etc.:
>
> NB: I am familiar with the literature on counting-out rhymes in English
>
> (e.g., Abrahams & Rankin, Opie, Sutton-Smith) and French (Baucomont et
> al., Laforte) and am particularly interested in information on c-o-r in
> non-Indo-European languages. I am also posting this questionnaire on the
> Linguist List.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Andy Arleo
> Université de Nantes/LACITO-CNRS
>
>
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