Replication Data for: Intensification strategies in English-Spanish bilingual speech: Examining lexical and morphological markers in Miami bilinguals’ discourse

Dataset abstract This dataset contains the three data files that the related publication is based on. In total, they contain 3000+ tokens of intensifying constructions. These constructions were extracted from the Miami Corpus, the Santa Barbara Corpus (specifically a subsample of the corpus containing all conversations involving non-Hispanic speakers from southern U.S. states) and the Havana subcorpus of Ameresco. They are coded for extralinguistic variables relating to the speaker and hearer and intralinguistic variables relating to the linguistic properties of both the base and the intensifier of the intensifying construction. Article abstract This paper investigates the speech variety of the English-Spanish community of Miami, which features a high degree of English-Spanish bilingualism. Specifically, it explores intensification, a site of analytic-synthetic conflict between English and Spanish grammars. English predominantly uses lexical-analytic strategies (e.g. very beautiful, a big house) for intensification, whereas Spanish employs more morphological-synthetic markers (e.g. guapísimo ‘very beautiful’, un casón ‘a big house’). Concretely, the current study aims to investigate whether Miami bilinguals have preferences in terms of the language or strategy of choice to express intensification and whether these preferences are influenced by intralinguistic (e.g. semantic-pragmatic function of the intensifier) or extralinguistic factors (e.g. speakers’ proficiency in, acquisition of and attitudes toward both languages). To this end, an empirical study is conducted on three corpora, one bilingual and two monolingual ones. In this study, a wide variety of both analytic and synthetic intensifiers is found. The qualitative and quantitative findings reveal that Miami bilinguals use more English than Spanish intensifiers and favor analytic intensifiers over synthetic ones. However, among the Spanish intensifiers, the proportion of synthetic forms is significantly higher than among the English intensifiers.数据集摘要 本数据集包含支撑相关研究论文的三份数据文件，总计涵盖3000余个强化构式（intensifying constructions）的Token。这些构式分别提取自迈阿密语料库、圣巴巴拉语料库（具体为该语料库的子样本，涵盖所有来自美国南部非西班牙裔说话者的对话内容）以及Ameresco公司的哈瓦那子语料库。所有数据均已编码，涵盖与说话者、听话者相关的超语言变量，以及与强化构式的中心成分和强化成分的语言属性相关的语言内部变量。 论文摘要 本研究聚焦迈阿密英西双语社区的言语变体，该社区兼具高度的英语-西班牙语双语特征。具体而言，本研究探讨强化表达现象——这一领域存在英语与西班牙语语法体系间的分析语-综合语冲突。英语的强化表达主要采用词汇-分析型策略（如“very beautiful（非常漂亮）”、“a big house（一所大房子）”），而西班牙语则更多使用形态-综合型标记（如guapísimo意为“非常漂亮”，un casón意为“一所大房子”）。具体而言，本研究旨在探究迈阿密双语者在表达强化意义时，是否存在语言或策略选择偏好，以及这些偏好是否受语言内部因素（如强化成分的语义-语用功能）或超语言因素（如说话者对两种语言的熟练度、习得情况与态度）的影响。为此，本研究基于三份语料库开展实证研究，其中一份为双语语料库，另外两份为单语语料库。本研究中发现了丰富多样的分析型与综合型强化成分。定性与定量分析结果显示，迈阿密双语者使用的英语强化成分多于西班牙语强化成分，且相较于综合型强化成分，更偏好使用分析型强化成分。但在西班牙语强化成分中，综合型形式的占比显著高于英语强化成分中的占比。