Publications

This article presents the advances made for the construction of the ‘Annotated and Parsed Audible Corpus of Spoken Rural Spanish’. The methodology for building a treebank to evaluate the accuracy of state-of-the-art part of speech taggers: spaCy, Stanza and UDPipe is presented. It is shown that, when oral data is tagged the accuracy is 0.90-0.93; none of the regional varieties presents a significant difference in accuracy over the others. ...

This paper investigates the formal and functional variation of the vocative in contemporary Spanish teenage talk. For this purpose, all vocative occurrences found in conversations between teenagers in the Corpus Oral de Madrid-2016 are analyzed. The vocative is known to be highly productive in Spanish teenage talk, on both formal and functional levels. First, we provide the inventory of vocative forms used by Madrilenian teenagers, examine their ...

Les langues satellite-framed acceptent facilement des constructions résultatives dans lesquelles l’attribut adjectival exprime le résultat du procès (Ed hammered the metal flat). Les langues romanes, quant à elles, y sont plus rétives, et, si elles les acceptent, c’est en principe avec le concours de prépositions, le résultat étant exprimé par un syntagme prépositionnel (Il a peint la porte en rouge). Cette généralisation n’est cependant pas ...

CORMA is a corpus of peninsular Spanish including spontaneous conversations recorded in Madrid between 2016 and 2019. The corpus was compiled in order to remedy the scarce documentation of 21st century colloquial Spanish. Indeed, a short overview of the corpora of conversational Spanish shows that there is a sharp contrast between the increasing interest in linguistic phenomena representative of this variety and the availability of suitable ...