Corpora: Mexican Spanish Corpora

[Tammi Mansolf]

Here is the summary of responses I received about Mexican Spanish. Not
much out there, but thank you to those who replied.

FYI, I did check with LDC, but they have no Mexican Spanish resources at
this time.

-Tammi

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Luis Pineda's team at UNAM has collected a task-oriented corpus in order

to develop a speech recognizer. I'm not sure if the corpus is available
for public consumption yet, but his team would also know about any other

Mexican corpora.  Luis's email is luis at leibniz.iimas.unam.mx.

Good luck!

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There are three extensive corpora of spoken Mexican Spanish edited by
Juan Lope Blanch ("El habla de la ciudad de México" (1971), "El habla
popular de la ciudad de México" (1976), "El habla popular de la
República Mexicana" (1995)). These were published in printed form, but
maybe the authors can make available an electronic version, at least for

the last one which was published in the era of computer-assisted
publishing. Juan Lope Blanch works at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma
and at the Colegio de México, but I was unable so far to locate his
e-mail address.

There exists another corpus of transcripts from Mexican television,
published in 1982 in the "Bielefelder Text-Corpora romanischer Sprachen"

by Reinhard Meyer-Hermann (University of Bielefeld in Germany), but this

exists only as typoscript, as far as I know; at least, this is the form
of publishing of the copy that I have.

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