Oral corpus of Spanish migrants residing in the city of Seville (Corpus.migra.sev) : construction, encoding, and exploration

Abstract

Corpus.migra.sev is a computerized corpus consisting of semi-directed interviews, based on a conversational script, conducted with Peruvian, Colombian, Nicaraguan, and Ecuadorian speakers residing in the city of Seville. These interviews were recorded between the years 2020 and 2023. The primary objective behind the design and creation of this corpus is to collect and encode representative oral samples from the various Spanish-speaking communities present in Seville This effort is in line with other corpora currently collected, such as CORDIESIN (Dynamic Corpus of Spanish Immigration) in the Madrid community. The materials gathered through Corpus.migra.sev will enable researchers to obtain insights into the linguistic characteristics of Spanish spoken by migrants, as well as their accommodation and sociolinguistic integration. Furthermore, it will facilitate the conduct of contrastive studies between the Spanish of native speakers and/or the migrant community residing in Spain. In this paper, various aspects related to the design and construction of the corpus are discussed, including its encoding, as well as the diverse possibilities for exploiting this database.