LINGUIST List 21.2384 Fri May 28 2010 FYI: New Corpus of L2 Spanish Available Editor for this issue: Rachelle Felzien <rachellelinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.    Laura Dominguez, New Corpus of L2 Spanish Available Message 1: New Corpus of L2 Spanish Available Date: 26-May-2010 From: Laura Dominguez <ldosoton.ac.uk> Subject: New Corpus of L2 Spanish Available E-mail this message to a friend We are happy to report the completion of a new corpus of oral Spanish as second language. This new data set (300 soundfiles and 128,178 words) is part of the existing Spanish Learner Language Oral Corpora (SPLLOC) project (www.splloc.soton.ac.uk) and was collected by researchers in Southampton, Newcastle and Greenwich (UK) to investigate the emergence and development of Spanish past tense forms by native speakers of English. The second-language oral Spanish data have been collected from classroom learners in schools and universities in England using four specially designed tasks to explore learners' developing ability to describe past events: one free narrative, one controlled narrative, one picture description task to elicit progressive events, and one guided interview. The participants are 60 English speakers learning Spanish at each of 3 levels: beginners (aged 14-15), intermediate (aged 17-18), and advanced students (fourth year undergraduates aged 20-21 majoring in Spanish). Fifteen native speakers were also recorded undertaking the same tasks. The sound files generated were transcribed using CHILDES software (http://childes.psy.cmu.edu) and morpho-syntactically analysed using the Spanish MOR and POST programs. All 300 digital soundfiles, CHAT transcriptions, part-of-speech tagged files, and XML versions of the CHAT transcripts are now freely available in anonymised form through the project website (www.splloc.soton.ac.uk) and Talkbank (www.talkbank.org) for use in research and teaching. Please visit http://www.splloc.soton.ac.uk for further details. The SPLLOC project is funded by two ESRC research grant awards (RES-000-23-1609 and RES-062-23-1075). Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics Language Acquisition Language Documentation Text/Corpus Linguistics Subject Language(s): English (eng) Spanish (spa) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 28-May-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.