General Information
The ParlaTO module is the second to be integrated into the KIParla corpus and comprises approximately 50 hours of spoken language. It consists of conversations involving over a hundred speakers from diverse geographical backgrounds and social strata, collected in Turin between 2018 and 2020 through semi-structured interviews on various topics (study, work, leisure or retirement activities, past memories, city life, etc.).
The recording hours are nearly equally distributed among young, adult, and elderly speakers, as reported below:
- Young adults (aged 16 to 29): 16:56:47
- Adults (aged 30 to 59): 15:39:01
- Seniors (over 60): 16:15:26
- TOTAL: 48:51:14
Of the approximately 17 hours from young speakers, about 7:45 are shared with the KIP module.
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
The module can be queried using the following metadata as search filters.
Conversations:
Number of participants:
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
Conversation Languages:
- Italian
- Italian-dialect
Speakers:
Occupation:
- Artisan
- Merchant
- Unemployed
- Occupations
- Intellectual
- Worker
- Pensioner
- Student
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
Region of Origin (Birth):
- Abruzzo
- Basilicata
- Calabria
- Friuli Venezia Giulia
- Lazio
- Liguria
- Lombardy
- Marche
- 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., secondary school diploma)
- Dip_tec_prof (i.e., technical or vocational institute diploma)
- Elementary
- Degree
- Degree in progress
- Middle School
- PhD
How to cite the module:
Cerruti, Massimo & Silvia Ballarè (2021), ParlaTO: corpus of spoken Turin Italian” In: Bulletin of the Italian Linguistic Atlas (BALI), 44 (2020), 171-196.
Massimo Cerruti and Silvia Ballarè, 2020, ParlaTO Module, DOI: https://doi.org/10.60760/unibo/parlato.
Coordinators
Massimo Cerruti (scientific director), 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 PhD students and researchers of Turin origin, collaborated in the data collection and transcription. Specifically, 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.
Thanks are also extended to the Intercultural Centre of the City of Turin, the ASAI association, the Italian Network of Popular Culture – Tullio De Mauro Fund, and the Piedmontese Study Centre.
Fundings
Year of publication
2019