Linguistic Corpora at the HZSK Repository
The Hamburg MapTask Corpus (HAMATAC)
Audio and two video recordings of map tasks with adult L2 users of German and one L1 speaker. The speakers' L1 and their L2 proficiencies vary. The maps used for the tasks are available.
Language: German
License: HZSK-ACA (academic)
Hamburg Modern Times Corpus (HaMoTiC)
Audio recordings of a film retelling task with adult L2 users of German. The speakers' L1 and their L2 proficiencies vary. 24 communications + 1 German reference communication, duration between 2 and 16 minutes. For each speaker, a language learner biography (audio and freely transcribes) is available.
Language: German
License: HZSK-ACA (academic)
Catalan in a bilingual context (PhonCAT)
Audio recordings of prompted, read and spontaneous speech data from L1 Catalan speakers from Barcelona. The data is stratified according to three different city districts and three age groups. Speakers' age vary from approx. 5 to 45 years.
Language: Catalan
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
Faroese Danish Corpus Hamburg 1.0.dan (FADAC-1.0.dan Hamburg)
Audio recordings of semi-structured interviews with bilingual speakers (aged 16-89 years) from various geographical areas on the Faroe Islands. For 37 of the 56 subjects there are recordings in both their L1 Faroese and their L2 Danish. Only the Danish data is available.
Language: Danish
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
Hamburg Adult Bilingual LAnguage (HABLA)
Audio recordings (semi-spontaneous interviews) with German/Italian and German/French bilingual speakers aged approx. 15-55 years at the recording sessions. The simultaneous bilinguals with German and French/Italian as L1s have been recorded twice, i.e. once for each language. The successive bilinguals with German as L1 and French/Italian as L2, or French/Italian as L1 and German as L1 all have AOAs between 11 and 38 years and have been recorded using their L2.
Language: German, French, Italian
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
Hamburg Corpus of Polish in Germany (HamCoPoliG)
Audio recordings of German/Polish bilingual and Polish monolingual adults (16-46 years). Recordings of semi-spontaneous data (3 topics) and renarration of a picture story.
Language: Polish
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
Phon-CL2
Audio recordings of 15 German subjects in Spain (5 to 36 years old) with Spanish as L2 and AOA > 2 years. Recording sessions in Spanish based on picture naming and story telling etc. Rich metadata on language use and attitudes in the family submitted by the parents.
Language: German, Spanish
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
Sprachvariation in Norddeutschland (SiN)
Audio recordings of adult speaker of Northern German varieties.
Language: German, Low German
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
Hamburg Corpus of Polish in Germany (HamCoPoliG)
Audio recordings of German/Polish bilingual and Polish monolingual adults (16-46 years). Recordings of semi-spontaneous data (3 topics) and renarration of a picture story.
Language: Polish
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
Faroese Danish Corpus Hamburg (FADAC Hamburg)
FADAC Hamburg is a corpus of spoken, informal Faroese and Faroese Danish that has been collected as part of the project Variation in the Multilingualism on the Faroe Islands at the Research Centre on Multilingualism at the University of Hamburg.
Language: Danish, Faroese
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)