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Linguistic variation
& forensic linguistics

Resources (oral and written corpora, compiled in apparent and real time in Catalan, Spanish, English, tools and consultancy offered by the UVAL-ForensicLab group.

 

Contact Contact Forensic linguistic consultancy offered by ForensicLab
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Forensic linguistic consultancy on plagiarism detection, authorship determination/attribution, speaker identification and verification, linguistic profiling, transcription and authentification of recordings, trademarks and patents and forensic linguistic mediation offered by ForensicLab. [+]
Access Access Free service of linguistic consultancy for immigrant people without means
Access: UPF-Solidària
Description:

Free service of linguistic consultancy for immigrant people without any financial means, promoted by ForensicLab and offered from the UPF_Solidària platform.
Contact Contact Bilingual corpus (Catalan and Spanish speakers) from La Canonja in apparent time (AT)
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30 life stories/sociolinguistic interviews (17 in Catalan and 13 in Spanish) collected between 1987 and 1993 (Apparent time (AT)) by means of the anthropological and sociolinguistic data collection techniques in Entitat Local Menor of La Canonja (Tarragona).

Length: 1 hour ~1 hour and a half.

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Contact Contact Corpus of Catalan speakers from La Canonja in real time (RT)
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10 sociolinguistic interviews in Catalan carried out between 2006- 2008 in real time (RT), by means of the "panel studies" data collection method (same informants in AT and RT), collected from 10 informants who had been interviewed in AT in La Canonja (Tarragona, Spain).

Length: 1 hour ~1 hour and a half.

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Contact Contact Corpus of sociolinguistic interviews to Spanish and Catalan speakers in apparent time (AT)
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15 sociolinguistic interviews in Spanish and Catalan collected between 1989 and 1993 by means of the Labovian data collection techniques, with Spanish participants from Barcelona and its metropolitan area and several styles and genres of formality/informality.

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Contact Contact Corpus of sociolinguistic interviews to English-speaking immigrants in apparent time (AT)
Corpus of sociolinguistic interviews to English-speaking immigrants in real time (RT)
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56 sociolinguistic interviews in English collected between 1989 and 1995 by means of the Labovian data collection techniques, including participants from The United Kingdom ( England , Wales , Scotland , Northern Ireland ), The Republic of Ireland, The United States, Australia and Canada and several styles and genres of formality/informality.

3 sociolinguistic interviews in English collected in 2009 by means of the Labovian data collection techniques, including participants from The United Kingdom, The Republic of Ireland and The United States. The participants had been interviewed in apparent time.

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Contact Contact Corpus of narratives of English-speaking immigrants in Spain in apparent time (AT)
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166 narratives in English collected between 1988 and 1993 by means of the Labovian data collection techniques, with participants from The United Kingdom ( England , Wales , Scotland , Northern Ireland ), The Republic of Ireland, The United States, Australia and South Africa .

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Contact Contact Corpus of sociolinguistic interviews to English speakers in real time (RT) with forensic purposes
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2 sociolinguistic interviews in real time (2009) comparable to 2 interviews collected in apparent time (1992) by means of the same data collecting technique called "panel studies" (same informants in AT and RT) from the area of Surrey (England), including several styles and genres of formality/informality.

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Contact Contact Corpus of extracts of recordings from the Internet in apparent time (AT) and real time (RT) with forensic purposes
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2 sets of extracts of recordings from several Internet sources (Youtube, BBC etc) from two journalists from the dialectal area of Surrey, in AT (1 informant: 1997-98; 1 informant: 1988-94) and in RT (1 informant 1988-94; 1 informant: 2007-09), including different styles and genres of formality/informality.

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Contact Contact Corpus of bilingual data (codeswitching)
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8 interactive recordings of group dynamics from bilingual speakers (L1 -> English; L1 -> Spanish/Catalan) collected between 1992 and 1993, by means of the Labovian unguided data collection techniques.

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