HKNSC: A Dynamic Bilingual Narrative Speech Corpus from Hong Kong

Yike Yang

doi:10.5334/johd.313

Abstract

This data paper introduces the Hong Kong Narrative Speech Corpus (HKNSC), a bilingual narrative speech corpus collected from bilingual immigrants in Hong Kong. The current version of the corpus contains narrative data based on the frog story from 172 speakers, and has been annotated following the standard CHAT format. The text version of the corpus was published and archived via JOHD Dataverse and can be used by scholars interested in linguistics and language acquisition.

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HKNSC: A Dynamic Bilingual Narrative Speech Corpus from Hong Kong

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