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The spoken L1 corpus represents present-day spoken Chinese (Putonghua) used in mainland China, which is designed as a comparable corpus to the spoken L2 corpus. It comprises L1-L1 conversational interactions between L1 speakers of Chinese and a native Chinese speaker in informal settings. This corpus contains 228,306 words of transcribed interaction gathered in 2018, featuring 22 L1 speakers of Chinese in 26 audio recordings.

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The-spoken-L1-corpus

The spoken L1 corpus represents present-day spoken Chinese (Putonghua) used in mainland China, which is designed as a comparable corpus to the spoken L2 corpus. It comprises L1-L1 conversational interactions between L1 speakers of Chinese and a native Chinese speaker (the corpus builder) in informal settings. This corpus contains 228,306 words of transcribed interaction gathered in 2018, featuring 22 L1 speakers of Chinese in 26 audio recordings.

How to acknowledge the use of the corpus?

The corpus user is required to acknowledge the spoken Chinese corpus in any publication or presentation arising from the use of the corpus data by citing the following reference:

Li, L. (2021). A spoken Chinese corpus: Development, description, and application in L2 studies [Unpublished Doctoral dissertation]. Massey University. https://github.com/blculyn

This is the downloadable version of the L1 component of the spoken Chinese corpus of informal interaction - the spoken L1 corpus. Its contents are listed below.

FILES IN THIS DOWNLOAD

VERSION.txt

spoken/untagged
- orginial text files of L1-L1 conversations. No headers.
- orginial text files of L1 speech only. No headers.
spoken/metadata
- text files containing speaker and recording metadata.
the spoken Chinese corpus transcription scheme. pdf
- transcription guidelines
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