Current projects

Sounds of Mapudungun (MPI-SHH)

Database, exploration tools, recordings and phonetic transcriptions of nearly 40 varieties of Mapudungun (Mapuzungun, Mapuche, Chedungun) spoken in Chile and Argentina.

Traces of contact (FONDECYT-Chile)

Three-year grant to study the impact that the varied and prolonged contact between the Mapuche people and the Europeans who settled in Chile has had on the variety of Spanish spoken in this territory, as well as the geographic, socioeconomic, ethnic and gender distributions of the resulting linguistic phenomena.

Research and Publications

See homepage.

Corpora and Linguistic Resources

CODICACH

Dynamic Corpus of Written Chilean Spanish (800 million words).

COSCACH

Sociolinguistic Corpus of Spoken Chilean Spanish (under development; currently ~2 million words of interviews and ~1.2 millions words of reading activities).

LIFCACH

Word Frequency List of Chilean Spanish.

MaSCoT

Praat script for working with large speech corpora.

Perkins

Software for phonemically transcribing, syllabifying and assigning accents and pauses to orthographic Spanish texts.