The Kachna L1/L2 Picture Replication Corpus

This paper presents the Kachna Corpus of Spontaneous Speech, in which ten Czech and ten Norwegian speakers were recorded both in their native language and in English. The dialogues are elicited using a picture replication task that requires active cooperation and interaction of speakers by asking them to produce a drawing as close to the original as possible. The corpus is appropriate for the study of interactional features and speech reduction phenomena across native and second languages. The combination of productions in nonnative English and in speakers' native language is advantageous for investigation of L2 issues while providing a L1 behaviour reference from all the speakers. The corpus consists of 20 dialogues comprising 12 hours 53 minutes of recording, and was collected in 2008. Preparation of the transcriptions, including a manual orthographic transcription and an automatically generated phonetic transcription, is currently in progress. The phonetic transcriptions are a...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Helena Spilková, Daniel Brenner, Anton Öttl, Pavel Vondricka, Wim van Dommelen, Mirjam Ernestus
• Keywords: Education, LREC 2010, Native Language, Orthographic Transcriptions, Phonetic Transcriptions