General Information
The ParlaTO module is the second to be included in the KIParla corpus and comprises about 50 hours of speech. It consists of conversations involving more than a hundred speakers with different geographical backgrounds and different social locations, collected in Turin between 2018 and 2020 by means of semi-structured interviews on various topics (study, work, leisure or retired activities, memories of the past, life in the city, etc.).
The recording hours are distributed roughly equally among young, adult and elderly speakers, as shown below:
- Young people (16 to 29 years old): 16:56:47
- Adults (30 to 59 years old): 15:39:01
- Seniors (over 60 years old): 16:15:26
- TOTAL: 48:51:14
Of the approximately 17 hours of young speakers, about 7:45 are shared with the KIP module.
Among the data collected, there are several dialect inserts. Consulting the transcript, a # is found on the first word in the transcription unit in which there is at least one word in dialect.
More detailed information can be found in the document below:
Metadata
The module can be queried using the following metadata as search filters.
Conversations:
Number of participants:
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
Conversational languages:
- Italian
- Italian-dialect
Talking:
Occupation:
- Artig
- Comm
- Disocc
- Impr
- Intell
- Oper
- Pens
- Stud
We have adopted the classification of occupations developed byIstat (to whose site we refer for more detailed information), supplementing it with categories for retirees, disocc for the unemployed, and stud for students.
Genre:
- F
- M
Region of origin (birth):
- Abruzzo
- Basilicata
- Calabria
- Friuli Venezia Giulia
- Latium
- Liguria
- Lombardy
- Brands
- Piedmont
- Apulia
- Sardinia
- Sicily
- Trentino South Tyrol
- Umbria
- Veneto
Age:
- 16-20
- 21-25
- 26-30
- 31-35
- 36-40
- 41-45
- 46-50
- 56-60
- 61-65
- 66-70
- 71-75
- 76-80
- 81-85
- Over85
Educational qualification:
- Dip_lic (i.e. high school diploma)
- Dip_tec_prof (i.e., technical or vocational school diploma)
- Elem
- Degree
- Bachelor's degree in progress
- Med
- PhD
How to cite the form:
Cerruti, Massimo & Silvia Ballarè (2021), ParlaTO: Turin speech corpus" In: Bulletin of the Italian Language Atlas (BALI), 44 (2020), 171-196.
Coordinators
Massimo Cerruti (scientific officer), Silvia Ballarè.
Research group and collaborators
Cecilia Andorno, Riccardo Regis, Eugenio Goria and Marco Favaro.
Students and former students from the University of Turin and the University of Bologna, as well as doctoral students and researchers of Turin origin, collaborated in the collection and transcription of data. In particular, Costanza Anedda, Milos Arsic, Alessandra Barotto, Greta Boccia, Asja Boggio, Martina Brugioni, Sara Caffaro, Francesca Cappelli, Michela Cinelli, Silvia Di Pietro, Michela Dolcetti, Adil El Marrhoub, Aya Saad Ghaleb Saad El Naggar, Silvia Fabbri, Veronica Fiorentino, Arianna Fontanot, Eleonora Franceschini, Elisa Funetta, Jessica Gatti, Giulio Giannetti, Ambra Gori, Anastasiya Kryvosheyeva, Giulia Lamarra, Ana Rosario Loza Luyo, Anna Loi, Alessia Marangio, Chiara Martano, Maddalena Montrasio, Andrea Mistretta, Filippo Mulinacci, Matteo Pellegrini, Alex Piovan, Mattia Poggioli, Lorenzo Rossi, Enzo Santilli, Patrizia Speranza, Michela Teston, Claretta Vitalunga, Emily Zanardo.
We also thank the Intercultural Center of the City of Turin, theASAI Association, the Italian Network of Popular Culture-Tullio De Mauro Fund, and the Center for Piedmontese Studies.
Fundings
Year of publication
2019