Observation Sessions in Prague: L1 English Expatriates

This dataset contains seven observation sessions. Seven groups of L1 English expatriates/immigrants living in the Czech Republic are speaking together about basic topics including travel, food and life in the Czech Republic vs their home countries.The data is in English. It was used for analysis of language contact and grammatical borrowing. In Observation Session 2, there was a Czech participant present (PCZ) who had lived in Australia for several years as an adult. Her data was not used for analysis in this study.

本数据集包含七次观测会话。七组以英语为第一语言（L1 English）、旅居或移民捷克共和国的外籍人士，围绕旅行、饮食、捷克与母国生活对比等基础话题展开交流。该数据集采用英语采集，主要用于语言接触与语法借用的分析研究。在第2次观测会话中，现场有一名捷克籍参与者（PCZ），其曾以成年人身份在澳大利亚旅居多年，但其相关语料未纳入本研究的分析范畴。