TY - BOOK

T1 - Building and using the Siarad Corpus

T2 - Bilingual conversations in Welsh and English

AU - Deuchar, Margaret

AU - Webb-Davies, Peredur

AU - Donnelly, Kevin

N1 - This book summarises and expands on research conducted at Bangor between 2015-2010 as part of an AHRC grant (PI: Margaret Deuchar) and later under the aegis of the ESCR Bilingualism Centre at Bangor.

PY - 2018/1/15

Y1 - 2018/1/15

N2 - This book is a research monograph divided into two parts. The first part describes the methods used to build the first sizeable corpus of informal conversational data collected from bilingual speakers of Welsh and English: Siarad. The second part describes the linguistic analysis of data from this corpus (available at bangortalk.org.uk). The information in Part One will be useful as a ‘how to’ manual on building a bilingual spoken corpus, including methods of data collection, transcription, glossing and analysis. The findings reported in Part Two throw new light on the debate regarding code-switching vs. borrowing, the application of the Matrix Language Framework (MLF) to the grammar of Welsh-English code-switching, the extralinguistic factors influencing variation in quantity of code-switching, and the extent to which the grammar of Welsh is changing in contact with English. Additional findings by other researchers using the corpus are also reported, and possible future directions are discussed.

AB - This book is a research monograph divided into two parts. The first part describes the methods used to build the first sizeable corpus of informal conversational data collected from bilingual speakers of Welsh and English: Siarad. The second part describes the linguistic analysis of data from this corpus (available at bangortalk.org.uk). The information in Part One will be useful as a ‘how to’ manual on building a bilingual spoken corpus, including methods of data collection, transcription, glossing and analysis. The findings reported in Part Two throw new light on the debate regarding code-switching vs. borrowing, the application of the Matrix Language Framework (MLF) to the grammar of Welsh-English code-switching, the extralinguistic factors influencing variation in quantity of code-switching, and the extent to which the grammar of Welsh is changing in contact with English. Additional findings by other researchers using the corpus are also reported, and possible future directions are discussed.

KW - bilingualism

KW - Celtic languages

KW - Corpus linguistics

KW - English linguistics

KW - Sociolinguistics and dialectology

U2 - 10.1075/scl.81

DO - 10.1075/scl.81

M3 - Book

SN - 9789027200112

T3 - Studies in Corpus Linguistics

BT - Building and using the Siarad Corpus

PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company

ER -