Research data on contact between Chinese and Brazilians in São Paulo

This dataset contains anonymized linguistic and social data, computational resources, and scripts used in the phonetic, grammatical, and lexical analyses of a doctoral research project on contact between Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese among Chinese immigrants and their descendants in the city of São Paulo. The materials made available include participant social data, vowel formant measurements, nominal number agreement data, verbal-choice data, a custom pronunciation dictionary for the Montreal Forced Aligner (MFA), and Python and R scripts used for data processing and analysis. Detailed information about the individual files and their use is provided in the accompanying README. The primary research files, including interview recordings, ELAN transcriptions, and alignment files, are not included in this dataset. Requests for access for research purposes may be submitted to [e-mail] and will be evaluated individually in accordance with the authorizations recorded in the participants’ informed-consent forms and with the ethical conditions applicable to the research. A corresponding record has also been created in the Repositório de Dados de Pesquisa da Unicamp (REDU) and is available at https://doi.org/10.25824/redu/K4CZFD. This research was supported by a Doctoral Fellowship from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), process no. 2022/09601-6.