The Sociolinguistic speech corpus of Chilean Spanish (COSCACH): a socially 
stratified text, audio and video corpus with multiple speech styles

Sadowsky, Scott

doi:10.1075/ijcl.19103.sad

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The Sociolinguistic speech corpus of Chilean Spanish (COSCACH): a socially stratified text, audio and video corpus with multiple speech styles

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Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Sadowsky, S. (2022). The Sociolinguistic speech corpus of Chilean Spanish (COSCACH): a socially stratified text, audio and video corpus with multiple speech styles. International journal of corpus linguistics, 19103.sad. doi:10.1075/ijcl.19103.sad.

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This paper presents the Sociolinguistic Speech Corpus of Chilean Spanish (COSCACH) v1.0, a 9.3-million-word corpus containing transcribed, lemmatized and morphologically tagged text, audio recordings and videos from 1,237 L1 speakers of Chilean Spanish, as well as a control sample of 21 non-Chilean L1 Spanish speakers. The COSCACH is the first freely available corpus of spoken Chilean Spanish of substantial size, as well as one of the largest speech corpora of any variety of Spanish. Following a review of other Chilean speech corpora, I describe how the COSCACH was constructed, covering corpus design, speaker recruitment and metadata collection, speech elicitation and recording, transcription, lemmatization and morphological tagging, and corpus compilation. I thereby aim to provide a blueprint for creating modern, large-scale speech corpora suitable for phonetic, sociophonetic and sociolinguistic research, in addition to traditional inquiry into semantics, lexis, grammar, pragmatics and discourse.