New corpus of spoken Welsh and Welsh-English code-switching

[Marika Fusser]

A new corpus of spoken Welsh and Welsh-English
code-switching is now available to researchers as
part of the LIDES project on www.talkbank.org.
The corpus, entitled the Bangor Corpus, consists
of about 2.5 hours of recordings of informal
conversations involving groups or pairs of
speakers in North-West Wales and about 2.5 hours
of excerpts from BBC Radio Cymru programmes. The
data can be used for research on Welsh-English
code-switching as well as general research on
spoken Welsh.
The corpus was transcribed at the University of
Wales, Bangor, as part of a small research
project led by Prof Margaret Deuchar, funded by
the British Academy, entitled "Structural aspects
of Welsh-English code-switching". The main
theoretical aim of the project was to test
Myers-Scotton's (2002) Matrix Language Frame
(MLF) model of code-switching with Welsh-English
data.

For further information contact Marika Fusser
(m.fusser at bangor.ac.uk) or Prof Margaret Deuchar
(m.deuchar at bangor.ac.uk).

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Mae corpws newydd o’r Cymraeg llafar ac o
gyfnewid codau Cymraeg-Saesneg ar gael i
ymchwilwyr fel rhan o’r prosiect LIDES ar
www.talkbank.org. Cynnwys y corpws, sy’n dwyn yr
enw "Bangor Corpus", oddeutu 2.5 awr o
recordiadau o sgyrsiau anffurfiol rhwng grwpiau
neu barau o siaradwyr yng ngogledd-orllewin Cymru
ac oddeutu 2.5 awr o ddetholrannau o raglenni
Radio Cymru. Gellir defnyddio'r data ar gyfer
ymchwil ar gyfnewid codau Cymraeg-Saesneg yn
ogystal ag ymchwil gyffredinol ar y Cymraeg
llafar. 
Trawsgrifiwyd y corpws ym Mhrifysgol Cymru,
Bangor, fel rhan o brosiect ymchwil bach dan
arweiniad Yr Athro Margaret Deuchar, dan nawdd yr
Academi Brydeinig, a oedd yn dwyn yr enw
"Agweddau strwythurol ar gyfnewid codau
Cymraeg-Saesneg". Prif nod damcaniaethol y
prosiect oedd profi model Myers-Scotton (2002) o
gyfnewid codau, y "Matrix Language Frame Model"
(MLF) gyda data Cymraeg-Saesneg. 

Am ragor o wybodaeth cysyllter â Marika Fusser
(m.fusser at bangor.ac.uk) neu'r Athro Margaret
Deuchar (m.deuchar at bangor.ac.uk).





	
	
		
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