General Information
General Information
ParlaBO is the fourth module of the KIParla Corpus and comprises over 65 hours of spoken language. It consists of conversations involving more than 150 speakers with diverse geographical origins and social backgrounds, collected in Bologna between 2021 and 2024 through semi-structured interviews on various topics (study, work, leisure or retirement activities, past memories, city life, traditions, local customs, etc.).
The recording hours are nearly equally distributed among young, adult, and elderly speakers, as reported below:
- Young (16 to 29 years old): 18:46:50
- Adults (30 to 59 years old): 24:21:43
- Elderly (over 60 years old): 22:34:52
- TOTAL: 65:43:25
Among the collected data, several dialectal insertions are present. In the transcription, a '#' is found on the first word of the transcription unit containing at least one dialectal word.
More detailed information can be found in the document below:
Metadata
Conversations:
Number of participants
- 2
- 3
- 4
Conversation Languages:
- Italian
- Italian-dialect
Participants:
Occupation:
- Artisan
- Merchant
- Unemployed
- Intellectual
- Worker
- Pensioner
- Student
- Technical
- Office
We adopted the classification of professions developed by Istat (to whose website we refer for more detailed information), integrating it with the categories pens for pensioners, disocc for unemployed individuals, and stud for students.
Gender:
- Male
- Female
Region of Origin (Birth):
- Basilicata
- Calabria
- Campania
- Emilia Romagna
- Friuli Venezia Giulia
- Lazio
- Lombardy
- Marche
- Molise
- Piedmont
- Sardinia
- Sicily
- Tuscany
- Trentino-South Tyrol
- Umbria
- Veneto
- Foreign
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:
- PhD
- Dip_lic (i.e., secondary school diploma)
- Dip_tec_prof (i.e., technical or vocational institute diploma)
- Elementary
- Degree
- Degree in progress
- Middle School
Native language:
- Other
- Dialect
- Italian
- Ita-other
How to cite the module
Caterina Mauri, Silvia Ballarè and Eleonora Zucchini, 2024, ParlaBO Module, DOI: https://doi.org/10.60760/unibo/parlabo.
Coordinators
Caterina Mauri, Silvia Ballarè and Eleonora Zucchini
Contributors
The following individuals collaborated in data collection and transcription: Chiara Acetino, Lorenzo Albanesi, Iman Assakhi, Margherita Bologna, Letizia Bova, Elena Bregoli, Anna Camattari, Irene Campioni, Arianna Cavadenti, Martino Cerio, Caterina Ciampechini, Daniel Ciampoli, Simone Cioffo, Martina Colori, Daniela Crunga, Eleonora Di Scala, Rachele Evangelisti, Sara Ferraguti, Benedetta Giorgi, Giacomo Grimaldi, Sergio Ladu, Laura Leone, Elisabetta Manassero, Sara Marconi, Giulia Massaggia, Francesco Massidda, Elena Maurizzi, Erika Mendicino, Agnese Nania, Costanza Nicolosi, Alessia Palaia, Lucia Poma, Lara Ponticiello, Chiara Raspanti, Sofia Romanato, Alessia Sidoli, Alessandra Simonetti, Pietro Spaggiari, Davide Tintori, Vanessa Tizzano.
Fundings
Project funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) – Mission 4 Education and Research.
Project 'DiverSIta – Diversity in spoken Italian', PI: Caterina Mauri. MUR Project Code [P2022RFR8T] – CUP [J53D23017320001]
Italian Ministry of University and Research and the European Union, PE 0000020 CHANGES, – CUP F53C22000700006, D53C22002530006 PNRR Mission 4 Component 2 Investment 1.3, funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.
Year of publication
2024