Two annotated files contain 1,939 total tokens of Spanish vocatives for apparent-time and micro-diachronic analysis. The first file has 1,107 tokens from the CORMA corpus recorded between 2016 and 2019, annotated for form and speaker generation. The second file contains 832 tokens from corpora spanning the 1980s to the 2000s, annotated for form, corpus, and decade. The data was created by author De Latte, Fien and is hosted by DataverseNO.
Use Cases
- Analyze the diffusion of countercultural 'cheli slang' vocatives like 'tío/-a' based on annotated form and decade data.
- Conduct apparent-time studies of language variation based on speaker generation annotations from the 2016-2019 corpus data.
- Compare the productivity of specific vocatives (e.g., 'tronco/-a', 'chaval-/a') against more general ones (e.g., 'chico/-a') based on the annotated token counts.
- Study semantic and expressive factors in language change based on the corpus data spanning five decades mentioned in the description.
Strengths
- Dataset contains 1,939 annotated tokens of Spanish vocatives, providing a substantive sample for analysis.
- Data is structured for two complementary analyses: apparent-time (1,107 tokens) and micro-diachronic (832 tokens).
- Temporal coverage spans from the 1980s to 2019, allowing for the study of language change over approximately five decades.
- Annotations include specific variables like speaker generation, corpus source, and decade, enabling multi-faceted research.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count for individual files is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for some statistical methods.
- Data is limited to Peninsular Spanish conversational corpora, which may not generalize to other Spanish dialects.
Provenance
- Source
- DataverseNO Harvested Dataverse, author De Latte, Fien.
- Collection Method
- Tokens were extracted and annotated from conversational corpora of Peninsular Spanish, including CORMA (2016-2019), CORLEC (90s), and COLAm (2000s).
- Time Range
- 1980s to 2019
- Freshness
- Last updated 2025-11-09 11:23:18; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Peninsular Spain