http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/ucla_spanport_oapolicydeposits/rss Recent eScholarship items from Department of Spanish and Portuguese Open Access Policy Deposits Mon, 2 Nov 2026 02:13:28 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4ts0x3st Aims and Objectives / Purpose / Research Questions: This article introduces the Multilingual Hispanic Speech in California (MuHSiC) corpus. It addresses two primary questions: (a) how can a large-scale, open-access corpus be designed to capture the linguistic diversity of Spanish–English bilingualism in California, and (b) how can such a resource support reproducible research across linguistic subfields? Design / Methodology / Approach: MuHSiC was constructed as a sociolinguistically stratified spoken corpus based on systematically collected bilingual interviews. The project integrates high-fidelity audio recording, standardized transcription protocols, phoneme-level forced alignment, acoustic extraction, and structured metadata collection to produce a research-ready, publicly distributable dataset. Data and Analysis: The corpus comprises 600 recordings from bilingual speakers representing diverse social and regional backgrounds across California. Each recording is approximately... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4ts0x3st Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Amengual, Mark https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2007-9687 Davidson, Justin Kim, Ji Young https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5708-6461 Vargo, Julian