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Building and Using the Siarad Corpus: Bilingual conversations in Welsh and English
Margaret Deuchar, Peredur Webb-Davies and Kevin Donnelly
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 81] 2018
► pp. 15–34

Chapter 2
Data collection and profile of the speakers in our corpus

Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Quantity and type of data
  • Participants
    • Method of recruitment
    • Method of recording
  • Ethical considerations
  • Questionnaire
  • Profile of our speakers based on their completion of background questionnaires
    • Gender
    • Age
    • Occupation
    • Geographical area
    • Education
    • Age of acquisition
    • Self-reported proficiency in Welsh and English
    • Language input in the home
    • Language of education
    • Languages of social network
    • Attitudes to language
    • Self-reported identity
    • Self-report of own code-switching
    • Attitudes to code-switching
  • Summary of Chapter 2
  • Notes