Abstract
In the present paper, we introduce the ManDi Corpus, a spoken corpus of regional Mandarin dialects and Standard Mandarin. The corpus currently contains 357 recordings (about 9.6 hours) of monosyllabic words, disyllabic words, short sentences, a short passage and a poem, each produced in Standard Mandarin and in one of six regional Mandarin dialects: Beijing, Chengdu, Jinan, Taiyuan, Wuhan, and Xi’an Mandarin from 36 speakers. The corpus was collected remotely using participant-controlled smartphone recording apps. Word- and phone-level alignments were generated using Praat and the Montreal Forced Aligner. The pilot study of dialect-specific tone systems showed that with practicable design and decent recording quality, remotely collected speech data can be suitable for analysis of relative patterns in acoustic-phonetic realization. The corpus is available on OSF (https://osf.io/fgv4w/) for non-commercial use under a CC BY-NC 3.0 license.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.lrec-1.213
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Marseille, France
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1985–1990
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.213
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Liang Zhao and Eleanor Chodroff. 2022. The ManDi Corpus: A Spoken Corpus of Mandarin Regional Dialects. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 1985–1990, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
- Cite (Informal):
- The ManDi Corpus: A Spoken Corpus of Mandarin Regional Dialects (Zhao & Chodroff, LREC 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/emnlp-22-attachments/2022.lrec-1.213.pdf