AHRC Corpus 3 hours of conversation in each language Recorded at the University of Tuzla in Bosnia and University of Sheffield in England About 30 min of conversation in each language is a response to a task, the remainder is developed freely by the participants
PARTICIPANTS 3 females and 1 male acquainted with each other or friends age: 19 – 27 undergraduate students or teaching assistants native speakers of each language
Tuzla recording
Recording setup in Tuzla Audio close talking head-set microphones (Sennheiser ME 3-N) one table top omni-directional PZM microphone for recording all channels simultaneously sampled at 44100 Hz, 16 bit resolution Video one CANON (MV600) digital camcorder
Background to Bosnian example F2 and F3 talk about the practice that family attends the public defence of theses (viva) F2 doesn’t want anyone to come to the viva, only to the celebration afterwards, F3 argues that that’s something important for the family they overlap each other several times in the extract
Mixed – all F2 all F3 all 24/04/2019