The MELI Corpus

The Mandarin–English Language Interview (MELI) Corpus is an open-access corpus of interviews with 51 Mandarin–English bilinguals. The corpus serves two primary purposes: (1) providing high-quality acoustic data for the analysis of Mandarin–English bilingual speech, and (2) providing interview data for qualitative analysis of language ideologies within the same group of bilinguals. To support these goals, the MELI corpus contains approximately 15 hours of high-quality recordings in each language. All recordings were captured on separate channels, and the interviewee’s speech has been fully transcribed and force-aligned.

Detailed information about the corpus is available on the Design, Procedures, Transcription, and Download pages.

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