DARDOSIPCAT: Audio Recordings

Welcome to the DARDOSIPCAT Audio Recordings!
   ¡Bienvenido a las grabaciones sonoras de DARDOSIPCAT!
        Benvingut a les grabacions sonores de DARDOSIPCAT!

This area of the archive houses the audio recordings deposited as primary source data in DARDOSIPCAT. DARDOSIPCAT Recordings belong to two separate corpora (Vann Corpus 1995 and Vann Corpus 2017). The 1995 corpus includes recordings of initial linguistic interviews with individuals who, in 1995, were members of two distinct, naturally-occurring social networks in Barcelona. These individuals belong to the first generation of Catalans ever educated in their heritage language to grow up in a democratic Spain. The 2017 corpus contains recordings of longitudinal interviews with individuals from both of the 1995 social networks. The recording and digitization conventions used in these corpora will be documented soon.

The only DARDOSIPCAT Recordings that will become available for download here are those for which informed consent has been given by all data providers. In such cases, recordings will be made available once they have been sufficiently anonymized (a process expected to be completed some time in June 2026). Once recordings become available for download, any researcher who wishes to use the recordings in their research will be able to download them in MP3 format from the archive free of charge by setting up an account as an authorized DARDOSIPCAT user. No special software is necessary to search, view, download or open these resources, though authorized users are reminded that all uses of the DARDOSIPCAT Audio Recordings are for research purposes only, and all such uses must cited properly.