ELRA - ELRA-SD155 : Pear-Chaplin Basque Corpus

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Pear-Chaplin Basque Corpus

This is a spoken corpus (MP3 files + transcripts) of Basque. Basically the corpus is built up with 42 recordings of narratives from Basque speakers were made in the Fall of 1993. In these narratives the speakers recounted a silent movie they had just watched to a friend who had not watched it. Two silent movies were used for this purpose: The Pear Movie (see Chafe 1981) and a short collage of scenes from Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times. Half of the narratives (21) are about each one of these two short films.

In addition, a few other recordings were made during the recording sessions, such as those of some of the speakers describing pictures taken from children’s books (the Ramona pictures) and of some speakers telling jokes or other stories in between recording sessions.

The author used the transcripts of these narratives in his doctoral dissertation (Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley, 1997) and released them in March 7, 2000 so that other Basque linguists may take advantage of all the work that went into making and transcribing these recordings.

It is distributed through the ELRA catalogue http://catalog.elra.info under the reference S0123 (Basque Spoken Corpus).

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speech corpus
Language(s) : Basque
Source Channel : microphone