PhonBank Chilean Spanish Vivar Corpus


Pilar Vivar
Departamento de Lenguas y Traducción
Temuco Catholic University

Participants: 163
Type of Study: experimental, cross-sectional
Location: Chile
Media type: audio
DOI: doi:10.21415/T5VT37

Browsable transcripts

Phon data

CHAT data

Link to media folder

Citation information

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Project Description

Recordings for this study were gathered from a picture-naming task (49 different word stimuli) which covers all of the consonants and consonant clusters of Spanish phonotactics. The recordings were performed in schools (Kindergarten) from four different regions in Chile: Antofagasta (North), Santiago (Central), Temuco (South) and Punta Arenas (extreme South). The goal of this project was to describe the early phonological development of Chilean Spanish. Ages range from 2;0 to 3;11. The interviews ranged between 15 and 25 minutes and were recorded on a Tascam DR40 digital audio recorder. The corpus was sub-divided into four different age groups and three different groups related to socio-economical status (SES):

File names indicate the age group and SES level of the child. The codes are as follows:

Thus, a filename such as 1B-ES.cha is for a child in age Group 1 between 2;00 and 2;05 and in the lower SES group.