The Hamburg Corpus of Argentinean Spanish (HaCASpa) was compiled in December 2008 and November/December 2009 within the context of the research project “The intonation of Spanish in Argentina” (H9, director: Christoph Gabriel), part of the Collaborative Research Centre “Multilingalism”, funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) and hosted by the University of Hamburg. It comprises data from two varieties of Argentinean Spanish, i.e. a) the dialect spoken in the capital of Buenos Aires (also called Porteño, derived from puerto ‘harbor’) and b) the variety of the Neuquén/Comahue area (Northern Patagonia).

Number of speakers: 60
Utterances: 26,995
Words: 141,321
Data: Audio and video recordings of spontaneous speech and elicited data.

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http://www.corpora.uni-hamburg.de/sfb538/de_h9_hacaspa.html

http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/exmaralda/files/h9-korpus/public/