General Information
The ParlaBZ module, collected in Alto Adige-Südtirol between 2020 and 2022, comprises approximately 5 hours of spoken Italian and is made up of a collection of semi-structured interviews and table conversations, with speakers mainly from the autonomous province of Bolzano.
The transcriptions were performed with a particular focus on conversational aspects.
More detailed information can be found in the document below:
Metadata
The module can be queried using the following metadata as search filters.
Conversations
Interaction type:
- Semi-structured interview
- Conversation at the table
Number of participants:
- 2
- 4
Relationship between participants:
- Asymmetric
- Symmetric
Conversation Languages:
- Italian
- Italian as a First Language (L1) – Italian as a Second Language (L2)
- Italian–Italo-Roman dialect (excerpts)
Speakers:
Occupation:
- Intellectual
- Non-qualified
- Pensioner
- Student
- Technical
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 retirees, disocc for unemployed individuals, and stud for students.
Gender:
- Female
- Male
Place of origin (birthplace):
- South Tyrol
- Veneto
- Lombardy
- Piedmont
- Colombia
Age:
- 21-25
- 26-30
- 36-40
- 41-45
- 85 and older
Educational background
- Elementary
- Averages
- Degree in progress
- Degree
- Currently pursuing a PhD
Native language
- Italian
- Dialect
- Other
How to cite the module
Veronesi, Daniela & Piovan, Alex (2026). The ParlaBZ module within the KIParla corpus: a collection of conversational spoken Italian in South Tyrol.
DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20670120
Coordinators
Daniela Veronesi, Alex Piovan
How to cite the corpus
Daniela Veronesi, Alex Piovan. 2026. Corpus Parla BZ. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60760/unibo/parlabz
Contributors
The following contributed to the creation of this collection: *studios*, which provided an interview from one of its research projects, as well as university students from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, who shared a conversation over dinner. We would like to thank them here.
Fundings
The data from the ParlaBZ module are part of the project “Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Interactions: A Corpus of Spoken Italian in South Tyrol” (led by D. Veronesi), conducted at the Faculty of Education at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and funded by personal research grants.
Year of publication
2026