Spontaneous bilingual speech in Paraguay and Brasil

Description

This corpus of spontaneous bilingual speech consists of 24 interviews with speakers of Guaraní, Spanish, Hunsrik, and Brazilian Portuguese. The interviews were conducted in 2022 in Paraguay and Brazil and recorded in audio and video. The interviews in Guaraní and Portuguese were conducted by informants. The rest of the interviews were conducted by the researcher herself.
22 interviews consisted of a questionnaire that queried sociolinguistic data about the interviewees (upbringing, education, work, hobbies, relationships), as well as encouraged them to tell stories freely by asking about extraordinary experiences or family myths. Two interviews were discussions about the status of the Guaraní language in Paraguay with politicians, activists, and literates.

Core team

• Gregory R. Guy
• Aria Adli (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2177-7375)
• Lena Pfannholzer (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2105-3390)

Cite as

Guy, Gregory R. & Aria Adli & Lena Pfannholzer 2025. Spontaneous bilingual speech in Paraguay and Brasil. Data Center for the Humanities. https://doi.org/10.18716/dch/a.00000056

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Archive Information

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18716/dch/a.00000056
Date of the archival: 2025-12-15
Size of the package: 720 GB
Contact Name: Felix Rau (DCH) - infodch.uni-koeln.de

Data formats

• Video: insv
• Audio: wav
• Text: pdf, docx, xlsx, eaf