DoReCo
@DoReCo_Project
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Spoken language corpora from over 50 non-WEIRD languages for phonetics, linguistics, cognitive science https://t.co/Z0ZsOpFfaW, updates at https://t.co/SDSSBimEw2
Joined May 2019
Along with the recent NHB paper, DoReCo data is now also distributed as a CLDF dataset ( for efficient and reproducible analyses. There's also a pipeline ( to create CLDF versions of DoReCo datasets yourself.
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The first study using all 51 DoReCo languages shows that word-initial consonants tend to be lengthened
Word-initial #consonants are systematically lengthened across a diverse sample of #languages. Study in @NatureHumBehav by Frederic Blum, Frank Seifart & a team of linguists @MPI_EVA_Leipzig @CNRS #SeDyL @HumboldtUni @ZASBerlin. &
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We have significantly improved consistency and accuracy of DoReCo data over the past couple of weeks (see for details), so we share the results of this as DoReCo 1.1., which has been published today:
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Registration for the DoReCo inauguration event ends in three days. If you haven't done so already, register until 22 July (for free) and join us on 29 July online or in person in Berlin!
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Deadline extended until April 11 for abstract submissions for @DoReCo, Stefan Schnell and @DanielleBarth1's workshop on “Spoken- and Signed-language Corpus Studies in Linguistic Typology”!
DoReCo with Stefan Schnell and @DanielleBarth1 organizing a workshop on “Spoken- and Signed-language Corpus Studies in Linguistic Typology” at ALT14, UT Austin, 15-17 Dec 2022 (. Submit your abstract by April 1 and come discuss with us!
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DoReCo with Stefan Schnell and @DanielleBarth1 organizing a workshop on “Spoken- and Signed-language Corpus Studies in Linguistic Typology” at ALT14, UT Austin, 15-17 Dec 2022 (. Submit your abstract by April 1 and come discuss with us!
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New volume on "Corpus-Based Typology With Spoken Language Corpora" ( just out - DoReCo PI Frank Seifart argues in it that Documentary linguistics and Corpus Phonetics form a happy marriage. Check out the other excellent contributions, too.
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Our advisory board member Nikolaus Himmelmann, founding father of Documentary Linguistics and pioneer of corpus-based prosodic typology, will give a presentation on "Universals of Language 3.0" at Abralin ao vivo this Wednesday. Highly recommended!
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DoReCo contributor Stefan Schnell’s new book is out!
Our book is out! You can get your own copy here for your corpus linguistics course:
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RT @DanielleBarth1: Our book is out! You can get your own copy here for your corpus linguistics course: https://t.…
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Congratulations DoReCo PostDoc Ludger Paschen for the appointment to a six-months replacement professorship in Slavic linguistics at University of Potsdam: ... Lots of success there! We will dearly miss him until his return to DoReCo in March 2022
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RT @abralin_oficial: In this talk, Birgit Hellwig explores the possibilities of extending the language documentation approach to include th…
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Congratulations, Matt Stave, on #sle2021's best PostDoc presentation award! Stave, von Prince & Seifart's usage-based approach to morphological typology finds mixed evidence for agglutinating vs. inflecting languages types, based on 19 DoReCo corpora.
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@StefanoCoretta DoReCo‘s approach is to process and make available existing documentation collections for phonx/gy, thereby also creating models for best practices for future fieldwork
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DoReCo goes morphology: Zipf’s and Menzerath’s laws on morpheme length in 9 DoReCo corpora just published (feel free to ask us for a pdf offprint)
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Deutsches Twitter: DoReCo sucht SHKs mit Praat-Erfahrung, deutschlandweit. Bewerbungsschluss 12.4.2021. Gerne weiterleiten!
Studentische Hilfskräfte im Bereich Phonetik/Korpuslinguistik/Typologie gesucht!
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Languages with complex phonology ALSO tend to be morphologically complex, analysis of 21 DoReCo corpora shows. Why? Read all about it in Shelece Easterday, Matt Stave, Marc Tang & Frank Seifart’s new Frontiers paper at
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update: our corpus phonetic cross-linguistic study on word durations not just a preprint anymore, but just published in Language Documentation & Conservation, brought to you from beautiful Hawai'i:
What makes speakers of diverse languages pronounce a word more quickly vs. more slowly? We report on the effects of a word's frequency, complexity, position, and part of speech, comparing ten language documentation corpora in
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