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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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Below we have listed accessible online sociolinguistic corpora:

Spanish

  • CANOLFAN: The Miami corpus consists of conversations by Spanish-English bilinguals
  • CESA: Corpus del Español en el sur de Arizona (Corpus of Spanish in Southern Arizona)
  • Corpus Del Español
  • Corpus of Mexican Spanish in Salinas
  • Corpus Sociolingüistico de la Ciudad de México (CSCM)
  • COSER: Corpus oral y Sonora del Español Rural
  • Lope Blanch Corpus
  • PRESEEA: Proyecto para el estudio sociolingüístico del español de España y de América
  • Spanish in Texas



Other Languages

  • American English - SLAAP: The Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project
  • Brazilian Portuguese - ALIP: Amostra Lingüística do Interior Paulista 
  • Catalan - Ancora
  • CORAAL: The Corpus of Regional African American Language
  • DECTE: Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English
  • Dutch - Brieven als Buit
  • Endangered Languages Archive- https://www.elararchive.org/ Some materials are sociolinguistic interviews or similar (narratives)
  • English ACE: Australian National Corpus
  • French - CFPP: Le Corpus de Français Parlé Parisien
  • German - The Kiel Corpus
  • Hebrew - CoSIH: The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew
  • ICE: International Corpus of English
  • Italian - LABLITA: Corpus of Spontaneous Spoken Italian
  • KiDKo: KiezDeutsch-Korpus (German in a multilingual neighborhood of Berlin)
  • Lithuanian - Vilniečių interviu bazė "Kalba Vilnius" (database of sociolinguistic interviews "Vilnius Speaking")
  • PAC: The Phonology of Contemporary English
  • PFC: Phonologie du Français Contemporain (Phonology of Contemporary French)
  • Portuguese - Amostra da Fala Paulistana
  • Several Portuguese Corpura
  • SBCSAE: The Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English
  • Swedish - The Swedish Spoken Language Corpus at Göteborg University
  • Valibel -- Discours et variation (French spoken in Bruxelles)
  • WSC: The Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English



Sign Language

  • BSLCP: British Sign Language Corpus Project

Multiple Languages

  • CHILDES: Child Language Data Exchange System (Spanish-English bilingual children)
  • Endangered Languages Archive
  • HLVC: Heritage Language Variation and Change Project (Various heritage languages spoken in Toronto)
  • LDC: The Linguistic Data Consortium
  • The New England Corpus of Heritage and Second Language Speakers (Oral and written production of heritage and L2 speakers of Spanish and Portuguese in New England)
  • Wikicorpus (Catalan, Spanish and English)

 

*If you are aware of other accessible online sociolinguistic corpora, please contact us.


Corpus Bilingüe del Valle (CoBiVa)


Department of Writing and Language Studies

Email: katherine.christoffersen@utrgv.edu
Email: julio.ciller@utrgv.edu

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