Stra-ParlaTO documents the Italian spoken by people with experience of international migration who reside in the Turin metropolitan area. The corpus collects data produced within multilingual communities belonging to three linguistic groups (Moroccan, Peruvian, and Romanian) through semistructured interviews and free-flowing conversations.
The corpus includes 139 participants and a total of 48 hours, 28 minutes, and 26 seconds of speech. The recordings were collected in two different types of contexts:
- semi-structured interviews;
- casual conversations.
For each participant, metadata is available regarding:
- age;
- gender;
- level of education;
- occupation;
- native language or languages;
- country and region of birth;
- age at the time of arrival in Italy;
- length of stay in Italy
Corpus Size
| Community | Interviews | Casual Conversations | Total |
| Peru | 09:40:10 | 07:12:20 | 4:52:30 PM |
| Morocco | 09:47:26 | 06:01:41 | 3:49:07 p.m. |
| Romania | 08:10:00 | 07:36:49 | 3:46:49 PM |
| Total | 27:37:36 | 8:50:50 p.m. | 48:28:26 |
More information about the corpus
Metadata
The module can be queried using the following metadata as search filters.
Conversations:
- free-flowing conversation
- semi-structured interview
Number of participants:
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
Languages used in the conversation:
- Italian
- Italian-Other
Speakers:
Occupation:
- N/A (we do not have this data)
- Artisan
- Merchant
- Unemployed
- Occupations
- Intellectual
- Non-qualified
- 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 retirees, disocc for unemployed individuals, and stud for students.
Gender:
- Female
- Male
Place of birth:
- Peru
- Morocco
- Argentina
- Piedmont
- Romania
- Moldova
- Lazio
- Colombia
- Sicily
- regions
- Venezuela
- Apulia
- Tunisia
- Lebanon
- Lombardy
- Egypt
- Friuli-Venezia-Giulia
- Liguria
- Sardinia
Age:
- 16-20
- 21-25
- 26-30
- 31-35
- 46-50
- 51-55
- 56-60
- 61-65
- 71-75
- 76-80
- 81-85
- Over85
Educational qualification:
- N/A (i.e., data not available)
- Elementary
- General Diploma Holder
- Dip_tec_prof
- Foreign Diploma
- Degree in progress
- Degree
- Middle School
- none
- PhD
Native language:
- Spanish
- Arabic
- Romanian
- Italian
- Italian; Arabic
- Italian; Romanian
- Spanish; Italian
- Romanian; Hungarian
- Arabic; Italian
- Romanian; Italian
- Lebanese
Age at arrival in Italy:
- 0–5
- October 6–10
- 11–15
- 16-20
- 21-25
- 26-30
- 31-35
- 41-45
- 46-50
- 51-55
- N/A
Years spent in Italy:
- 0-1
- 02-03
- 04-05
- 06-07
- 08-09
- 10–11
- 12–13
- 14–15
- 16–17
- 18–19
- 20–21
- 22–23
- 24–25
- 26–27
- 28–29
- 30–31
- 32–33
- 34–35
- discontinuous
- N/A
How to cite the module
Bernasconi, Beatrice & Goria, Eugenio. 2026. Stra-ParlaTO. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60760/unibo/stra-parlato
Coordinators
Beatrice Bernasconi and Eugenio Goria
Contributors
The following individuals assisted with data collection and transcription:
Paradero NOMIS Project, Center for Italian-Romanian Culture and Tradition, Andreea Adam, Chaimae Atraoui
, Ines Battista, Noemi Bellomo, Cristiana Bozza, Sabrina D’Alì, Dalila Di Maria, Sara Di Stasio, Wiam Elasraoui, Adil El Marrhoub, Aya El Naggar, Abderrahman Ghanem, Noemi Giannico, Giulia Gobbi Capula,
Elisa Gotta, Nada Idyounes, Raquel Angelica Jocared Rodriguez, Chiara Marinucci, Serena Massarotti, Benedetta Mauro, Alessia Neagu, Adama Ngom, Alessia Salvati, Hoda Simad, Alessandro Siniscalchi, Sara Viel, Giorgia Zilli, Alessia Zuliani.
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]
Year of publication
2026