FMURF Project Overview:

Project Overview: 

Thanks to the support of two previous FMURF cycles, the world's largest Spanish-English bilingual speech corpus, MuHSiC, is now complete. The corpus consists of 600 interviews (performed for over 30 minutes in each of Spanish and English, per person) culled from a diverse sample of California Spanish-English bilinguals. The corpus facilitates the rigorous linguistic study of the language practices of California bilinguals, which serves to ultimately document and legitimize California bilingual speech. In order to make the corpus accessible to researchers not only in California, but across the world, a website for MuHSiC was designed over the course of the present FMURF cycle, which features a free-to-access log-in system to download speech data, interactive maps to visualize where speakers reside, a sample of the corpus (without log-in access), and information about the project and its team.