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    CoBiVa is the first digital documentation of bilingualism in the Rio Grande Valley, preserving oral narratives on language and culture. It fosters linguistic diversity, supports research, and connects the university with the community.

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Dr. Katherine Christoffersen , Dr. Ana Carvalho, and Dr. Ryan Bessett
CoBiVa Awarded NEH Grant
On Tues. Apr. 18, 2023, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded Dr. Katherine Christoffersen (UTRGV, Project Director/Principal Investigator (PI)), Dr. Ana Carvalho (University of Arizona, co-PI), and Dr. Ryan Bessett (University of California San Diego, co-PI) a Humanities Collections and References Resource (HCRR) Implementation grant for their project entitled “Bilingual Voices in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands: Preserving, Expanding, and Elaborating Sociolinguistic Collections” in the amount of $349,975.
Learn more about CoBiVa Awarded NEH Grant
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Carolina DeAnda earns Distinguished Scholar Award
On April 22, 2022, Ms. Carolina DeAnda was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award for her poster entitled 'Celebrating Language Variation in RGV Classrooms' at the Engaged Scholar Symposium on Thurs. Apr. 21.
Learn more about Carolina DeAnda earns Distinguished Scholar Award
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CoBiVa on Citizen Sociolinguistics Panel at AAAL 2022
At our first in-person conference in years, CoBiVa traveled to the 2022 meeting of the American Association of Applied Linguistics in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Christoffersen and undergarduate student Ms. Carolina DeAnda presented "Citizen Sociolinguistics at the U.S.-Mexico Border: A Community-Based, Community-Driven Sociolinguistic Corpus with Resources for the Public" on a panel on citizen sociolinguistics.
Learn more about CoBiVa on Citizen Sociolinguistics Panel at AAAL 2022
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Congratulations to Carolina DeAnda for her Engaged Scholar and Artist Award
Ms. Carolina DeAnda was awarded an Engaged Scholar and Artist Award for Spring 2022 entitled "Celebrating Linguistic Variation in RGV Classrooms."
Ms. DeAnda will be creating teaching materials based on the CoBiVa.
Learn more about Congratulations to Carolina DeAnda for her Engaged Scholar and Artist Award
White Paper, Handbook & Resources for Creating Sociolinguistic Corpora
White Paper, Handbook & Resources
As a part of the National Endowment of Humanities project "Bilingual Voices in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands," Dr. Bessett, Dr. Carvalho, and I wrote a white paper on our findings on technologically-aided transcription methods for bilingual sociolinguistic corpora.
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CoBiVa at LASSO 2021
This year's LASSO 2021 Virtual Conference included two presentations related to the Corpus Bilingüe del Valle (CoBiVa) and presented by three faculty and five students.
Learn more about CoBiVa at LASSO 2021
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Speed and Ease of Use for Technologically Aided Transcription Methods
During Spring 2021, we tested out 2 different transcription methods (Microsoft Stream and ExpressScribe) with students in internship style corpus development classes at UTRGV and UA. We here report the findings of both the speed and ease of use of these methods, funded in part by the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Learn more about Speed and Ease of Use for Technologically Aided Transcription Methods
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Congratulations to Aubrey Villanueva, Starting MA in Linguistics at UC Boulder
Congratulations to Ms. Aubrey Villanueva, UTRGV alum and former CoBiVa research assistant, who is starting her first semester at the University of Colorado Boulder MA Linguistics program!
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Congratulations to Kimberly Regalado, Sustainability Fellowship Recipient

Congratulations to Kimberly Regalado, a Sustainability Fellowship recipient for her thesis project entitled "Sustaining la Voz del Valle" (Sustaining the Voice of the Valley)!

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Summer 2021 CoBiVa Team

We are so thankful for our amazing CoBiVa team that has been working with us on the continued elaboration of the corpus, funded in part by the National Endowment of the Humanities. We have been fortunate to continue to work with Ms. Elsa Magaña and Ms. Mayte Vega Mudy, and this summer, three new research assistants have joined the team. 

Learn more about Summer 2021 CoBiVa Team
Dr. Katherine Christoffersen , Dr. Ana Carvalho, and Dr. Ryan Bessett

CoBiVa Awarded NEH Grant

On Tues. Apr. 18, 2023, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded Dr. Katherine Christoffersen (UTRGV, Project Director/Principal Investigator (PI)), Dr. Ana Carvalho (University of Arizona, co-PI), and Dr. Ryan Bessett (University of California San Diego, co-PI) a Humanities Collections and References Resource (HCRR) Implementation grant for their project entitled “Bilingual Voices in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands: Preserving, Expanding, and Elaborating Sociolinguistic Collections” in the amount of $349,975.

Picture of Carolina infront of her board

Carolina DeAnda earns Distinguished Scholar Award

On April 22, 2022, Ms. Carolina DeAnda was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award for her poster entitled 'Celebrating Language Variation in RGV Classrooms' at the Engaged Scholar Symposium on Thurs. Apr. 21.

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