DARDOSIPCAT: Digital ARchive to DOcument Spanish In the Països CATalans

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What is DARDOSIPCAT?

DARDOSIPCAT is a linguistic archive, a place that permanently stores language resources such as digital recordings and transcriptions for people to download and study. This archive is dedicated to Spanish language resources from the Països Catalans. As a distributed language documentation project, DARDOSIPCAT represents the cumulative efforts of multiple individuals from different countries who collaborated together over a period of 31 years.

What kinds of resources are in DARDOSIPCAT and can I download them?

DARDOSIPCAT includes digital audio recordings and transcriptions corresponding to sociolinguistic interviews from 1995 and 2017. These interviews were part of a longitudinal research project concerning the Spanish spoken in and around Barcelona by members of The Generation of 1995, the first generation of Catalans ever educated in their heritage language to grow up in a democratic Spain. The interviews, which were conducted primarily in Spanish with some discourse in Catalan, focus on language and society in contemporary Catalonia in each time period.

Some DARDOSIPCAT resources are accessible to authorized users while others remain under embargo. At this time, 103 MP3 audio recordings and PDF transcriptions are available in the Accessible DARDOSIPCAT Resources collection. Accessing these resources requires an authorized DARDOSIPCAT user account, which interested visitors can request by agreeing to a Terms & Conditions webform (coming soon).

DARDOSIPCAT statement of purpose.

The language documentation process in DARDOSIPCAT: