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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Carmen Silva-Corvalán papers
Creator:
Silva-Corvalán, Carmen
Identifier/Call Number: 0590
Physical Description:
7.03 Linear Feet
9 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1978-1992
Abstract: This collection contains digitized interviews, interview transcriptions, and related notes reflecting the Spanish sociolinguistic
research of USC Professor Carmen Silva-Corvalán. Materials include approximately 348 hours of audio interviews collected from
1976 to 1992 in Spain, Chile, and Los Angeles County, California, with both male and female subjects in a range of ages, as
well as related transcriptions and speaker information.
Language of Material:
Spanish; Castilian, English.
Advance notice required for access.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Carmen Silva Corvalan, November 2013.
Carmen Silva-Corvalán (born 1941) is Professor Emerita of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Southern California.
She received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1979, and taught at the Universidad
de Chile, Santiago, from 1970 to 1979 before joining the faculty of the University of Southern California in 1979. Her research
in linguistics has included a particular focus on Spanish-English bilingualism. Among her published works are
Bilingual Language Acquisition: Spanish and English in the first six years (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
[Box/folder no. or item name], Carmen Silva-Corvalán papers, Collection no. 0590, Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American
Studies, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
This collection contains digitized interviews, interview transcriptions, and related notes reflecting the Spanish sociolinguistic
research of USC Professor Carmen Silva-Corvalán. Materials include approximately 348 hours of audio interviews collected from
1976 to 1992 in Spain, Chile, and Los Angeles County, California, with both male and female subjects in a range of ages, as
well as related transcriptions and speaker information. The collection offers a resource for studying language education,
linguistic research, bilingualism research, and technology development, specifically of Spanish spoken in Spain, Chile and
Los Angeles. Most of the interviews are in Spanish.
The collection is divided into three series: digitized interviews; interview files; and miscellaneous.
The digitized interviews include: East Los Angeles, California, interviews of Mexican Americans covering 110 hours, collected
from 1983-1984; about 48 hours are interviews with Mexican-American children, collected in Los Angeles, California, from 1988-1992;
San Fernando Valley Mexican-American adolescents interviews covering more than 21 hours, collected in 1976; recordings of
West Los Angeles Mexican Americans of various ages covering more than 41 hours, collected in 1978; and Santiago, Chile, interviews
covering 93 hours, which were collected from 36 Chileans of varying ages from 1978-1992. The audio recordings were digitized
in 2017 and the original tapes were subsequently deaccessioned.
The interview files chiefly consist of transcriptions and speaker bios arranged in series based on Silva-Corvalán's original
file titles.
The miscellaneous series contains two issues of the journal Bilingualism: language and cognition journal (2014, 2016) and
a one-page session outline for a 1993 GURT Pre-Session: Grammaticalization Processes in the Spanish of Texas.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Bilingualism -- California -- Los Angeles -- Interviews
Bilingualism in children -- Interviews
Chileans -- Interviews
Hispanic Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Interviews
Spanish language -- Interviews
Interviews (Sound recordings)
Interviews
Silva-Corvalán, Carmen -- Archives