HLVC Transcriptions and Recordings

A primary goal of the Heritage Language Variation and Change Project (HLVC) is to construct a unique corpus of conversational speech in ten Heritage Languages spoken in the Greater Toronto Area. This corpus, the Heritage Language Documentation Corpus, or HerLD, contains recordings in the Heritage Languages of speakers representing three generations. Our goal is to record 40 speakers, balanced for age and sex, for each of the three generations (and 20 speakers for languages where only two generations exist in Toronto, i.e., Korean and Faetar).