Romance Language Survey

Description: The Romance Language Survey is an on-going project designed to collect speech samples of the five major Romance languages (French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish). Data are collected in Toronto from native speakers and second/third language learners.

Data elicitation: Participants read a set of words in a carrier sentence; read the language-appropriate version of the fable 'The Northwind and the Sun'; retell the story of Red Ridinghood based on a set of pictures; and describe their favourite meal.

Speaker codes
French
  • Native speakers (15)
  • L2/L3 learners (15)
  • FN044-058
  • FL112-113, 119-131
Italian
  • Native speakers (15)
  • L2/L3 learners (15)
  • IN001-010
  • IL001-010
Portuguese
  • Native speakers (15)
  • L2/L3 learners (15)
  • PN001-010
  • PL001-010
Romanian
  • Native speakers (15)
  • L2/L3 learners (15)
  • RN001-010
  • RL001-010
Spanish
  • Native speakers (15)
  • L2/L3 learners (15)
  • SN117, 123-132, 135-138
  • SL001-010, 015, 031-034
Stimuli
French
  • Words (Alphabetical list)
  • Words (Phonetic list)
  • Reading text
Italian
  • Words (Alphabetical list)
  • Words (Phonetic list)
  • Reading text
Portuguese
  • Words (Alphabetical list)
  • Words (Phonetic list)
  • Reading text
Romanian
  • Words (Alphabetical list)
  • Words (Phonetic list)
  • Reading text
Spanish
  • Words (Alphabetical list)
  • Words (Phonetic list)
  • Reading text
Phenomena codedAll segmental and prosodic properties in phonetic lists above



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