Description of corpora

Romance Language Survey

Description

• The word list for this corpus was originally designed by Laura Colantoni and Jeffrey Steele for the Romance Phonetics Database (containing audio recordings).
• The current data are from 11 speakers representing two varieties of French and three varieties of Spanish.
• The simultaneous EPG and audio recordings were collected in the Linguistics Phonetics Lab in 2008-09 (Spanish) and 2014-15 (French).

Speaker codes

• French: FRCf01, FRCf02, FRQf01, FRQf02 (where C = Continental/France, Q = Quebec; f = female)
• Spanish: SPAf01, SPAf02, SPAf03, SPAf04, SPAm05, SPCf01, SPPf01 (where A = Argentine, C = Cuban, P = Peninsular/Spain, f = female, m = male)

Materials

• French
  • Words (alphabetical and phonetic), produced in the carrier phrase Je dis __ une fois 'I say ___ again' and in isolation. On average 6 repetitions of words in carrier sentences and 2 repetitions of single words were collected.
  • Text: La Bise et le Soleil (The North Wind and the Sun)
• Spanish
  • Words (alphabetical and phonetic), produced in the carrier phrase Digo __ otra vez 'I say ___ again' and in isolation. On average 6 repetitions of words in carrier sentences and 2 repetitions of single words were collected.
  • Text: La Bise et le Soleil (The North Wind and the Sun)
  • Text: El Viento Norte y el Sol (The North Wind and the Sun)

• For both languages
  • Multiple repetitions were elicited of all the materials (on average 6 for words in carrier sentences, at least 2 for single words, and 4 for the text).
  • In file names, 'c' refers to words in carrier sentences, 's' to words in isolation,and 'p' to the text (e.g. abaisse_c1_epFRCf01: the first repetition of the word 'abaisse' in the carrier sentence by FRCf01).
  • All files are coded for segments (consonants and vowels) and graphemes.