Finding aid for the Carmen Silva-Corvalán papers 0590

Diann Benti

USC Libraries Special Collections

2022 March

Doheny Memorial Library 206

3550 Trousdale Parkway

Los Angeles, California 90089-0189

specol@usc.edu

URL: http://libraries.usc.edu/locations/special-collections

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.

Conditions Governing Access

Advance notice required for access.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Carmen Silva Corvalan, November 2013.

Biographical / Historical

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).

Preferred Citation

[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.

Scope and Contents

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.

Conditions Governing Use

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.

Rights Statement for Archival Description

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

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

Digitized interviews

Spanish Sociolinguistic Research Collection interviews - USC Digital Library

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Interview files

Chile

Box 1, Folder 1

Chile: tape contents, speakers' vitas 1992

Box 1, Folder 2-3

[Chile speakers data]

[Chile recordings edits]

Box 1, Folder 5

CH notebook

Box 1, Folder 6

Unknown women

Box 1, Folder 7

CH 1: Dolores Perez (f, 68)

Box 1, Folder 8

CH 2:1

Box 1, Folder 9

CH 2: 4: Helios

Box 1, Folder 10

CH 2:4-5: Fernando (m, 70)

Box 1, Folder 11

CH 2:6: Rene

Box 1, Folder 12

CH2: 7: Manuel (m, 39)

Box 1, Folder 13

CH 008: German

Box 1, Folder 14

CH 2: 14: Helios (m, 33)

Box 1, Folder 15

CH 2:19: Mario F. (m, 43)

Box 1, Folder 16

CH 3: Matias (m, 4:6)

Box 1, Folder 17

CH 14: Luis Alberto

Box 1, Folder 18

CH 14?: Luis Alberto

Box 1, Folder 19

CH 15-16: Virginia

Box 1, Folder 20

CH 17-18: Carlos Charlin (m, 69)

Box 1, Folder 21

CH 21: Tati (f, 16)

Box 1, Folder 22

CH 22-23: Helios

Box 2, Folder 1

CH 24-25: M. Eugenia (f, 34)

Box 2, Folder 2

CH 26: Rene (m, 35) 1978

Box 2, Folder 3

CH 30: Osualdo

Box 2, Folder 4

CH 36-37: Marina

Box 2, Folder 5

CH 47-48: Maria Lara (f, 66)

Box 2, Folder 6

CH 50-51: Fernando Silva A. (m, 70)

Box 2, Folder 7

CH 56: Virginia (f, 16)

Box 2, Folder 8

CH 57: Adriana (f, 38)

Box 2, Folder 9

CH 61: Rosalia (f, 4)

Box 2, Folder 10

CH 61: Pedro (m, 41)

Box 2, Folder 11

CH 64: Manuel

Box 2, Folder 12

Chile project: transcripciones de U. Catolica 1992-1993

Madrid, Spain

Box 3, Folder 1

Madrid speakers

Box 3, Folder 2

Madrid [transcriptions]

Box 3, Folder 3

Transcripciones: Madrid

West Los Angeles (WLA)

Box 3, Folder 4

WLA speakers

Box 3, Folder 5

WLA speakers: topics, features

Box 3, Folder 6-7

Arturo Lopez (M, 17); China Lopez

Box 3, Folder 8

Nena (f, 14) y Maria Valdivia (f, 39)

Box 3, Folder 9

Maria (f, 39) & Nena Valdivia (f, 14) WLA 37 (A, B)

Box 3, Folder 10

Jose Romo

Box 3, Folder 11

Nena (f, 18) y Jose Jauregui (m, 55)

Box 3, Folder 12

Josefina Chacon (f, 36); y Inocente Chacon (m, 40) WLA 12(B); 30 (A)

Box 3, Folder 13

Josefina Chacon (f, 36); y Inocente Chacon (m, 40) WLA 31(A); 32(A)

Box 3, Folder 14

Charlie Chacon (m, 19); Beto Chacon (m, 18); Josephina Chacon (f, 36)

Box 3, Folder 15

Ana Olivas (f, 42) WLA 7(A-B)

Box 3, Folder 16

Ana Martinez (f, 38) WLA 19(B)

Box 4, Folder 1

Code-switching: Francisco and "cholos"

Box 4, Folder 2

Antonio; Petra; Liandra

Box 4, Folder 3

Feliciano; Louis Vi.; Jesus S.

East Los Angeles (ELA)

Box 5, Folder 1

Speaker Vitas

Box 5, Folder 2-3

Tape contents

Box 5, Folder 4

NSF: typed lang. samples

Box 5, Folder 5

Hypo, samples

Box 5, Folder 6

ELA 2, 3: Alicia (f, 62); Alberto

Box 5, Folder 7

ELA 4: Merce (f, 51); Carlos (m, 54)

Box 5, Folder 8

ELA 5: Merce

Box 5, Folder 9

ELA 6: [Mercedes (f, 53); Carlos (m, 55)

Box 5, Folder 10

ELA 7, 8: Rufina (f, 55)

Box 6, Folder 1

ELA 9: Consuelo (f, 61)

Box 6, Folder 2

ELA 11: Hector (m, 21)

Box 6, Folder 3

ELA 13: Fortino, 1st gen.

Box 6, Folder 4

ELA 17, 18: Rosa (f, 42), Juan (m, 41)

Box 6, Folder 5

ELA 19: Rosa (f, 42), 1st gen.

Box 6, Folder 6

ELA 21: [Beatrice O. (f, 51); Alejo O. (m, 57)]

Box 6, Folder 7

ELA 22: Beatriz (f, 50); Alejo (m, 57)

Box 6, Folder 8

ELA 23: Lucy (f, 37); Henry (m, 39)

Box 6, Folder 9

ELA 24: Lucy (f, 37); Henry (m, 39)

Box 6, Folder 10

ELA 25: Esther (f, 43)

Box 6, Folder 11

ELA 26: Elisa (f, 20) 1st gen

Box 6, Folder 12

ELA 27: Eva

Box 6, Folder 13

ELA 28: Eva (f, 44); Phil (f, 54), 1st. Gen

Box 6, Folder 14

ELA 29: Araceli (f, 20); Belinda (f, 19)

Box 6, Folder 15

ELA 30: Rodney (m, 15); Sonia (f, 19)

Box 6, Folder 16

ELA 31: Sonia (f, 19); Richard (m, 4)

Box 6, Folder 17

ELA 32b, 33a: Elsa (f, 27)

Box 6, Folder 18

ELA 36: Robert (m, 46)

Box 7, Folder 1

ELA 37: Silvia (f, 24)

Box 7, Folder 2

ELA 38: Robert (m, 46)

Box 7, Folder 3

ELA 39, 40: Ed (m, 54), 3rd gen.

Box 7, Folder 4

ELA 41: Julian (m, 58)

Box 7, Folder 5

ELA 42: Dolores (f, 28), 3rd gen

Box 7, Folder 6

ELA 43: Diego (m, 45), 3rd gen.

Box 7, Folder 7

ELA 44: Phil (m, 54)

Box 7, Folder 8

ELA 45: Lourdes (f, 23)

Box 7, Folder 9

ELA 46: Ana Maria (f, 40)

Box 7, Folder 10

ELA 47: Gilberto (m, 60); Richard (m, 33)

Box 7, Folder 11

ELA 48: Nora (f, 21)

Box 7, Folder 12

ELA 49: Hector (m, 25)

Box 7, Folder 13

ELA 50: Robert (m, 20), 2nd gen.

Box 7, Folder 14

ELA 51: Manuel (m, 2)

Box 7, Folder 15

ELA 52, 53a: Maria Elena (f, 33), 3rd gen.

Box 8, Folder 1

ELA 54: Laura (f, 22), 2nd gen.

Box 8, Folder 2

ELA 56: Maria G. (f, 20), 1st gen.

Box 8, Folder 3

ELA 57: Joe (m, 17), 3rd gen.

Box 8, Folder 4

ELA 58: Jose Luis (m, 17)

Box 8, Folder 5

ELA 59: Moises (m, 17), 1st gen.

Box 8, Folder 6

ELA 61: Dolores (f, 28)

Box 8, Folder 7

ELA 61b: Araceli (f, 19), 2nd gen.

Box 8, Folder 8

ELA 62: Jose-Richard (m, 17), 3rd gen.

Box 8, Folder 9

ELA 63: Rodney (m, 17), 3rd gen.

Box 8, Folder 10

ELA 64: Elisa (f, 20)

Box 8, Folder 11

ELA 65: Belinda (f, 19), 3rd gen.

Box 8, Folder 12

ELA 66: Sonia (f, 19), 3rd gen.

Box 8, Folder 13

ELA 67: Virgie (f, 18), 2nd gen.; Rosy (f, 21), 2nd gen.

Box 8, Folder 14

ELA 68: Rosy (f, 21), 2nd gen.; Rosa (f, 42), 1st gen.

Box 8, Folder 15

ELA 69: Hector (m, 21), 2nd gen.

Box 8, Folder 16

ELA 70: Elsa (f, 27), 2nd gen.

Box 8, Folder 17

ELA 71: Hector Z. (m, 26)

Box 8, Folder 18

ELA 72: Lourdes (f, 23)

Box 8, Folder 19

ELA 73: Alberto (m, 60), 2nd gen.; Alicia (f, 62), 1st gen.

Box 8, Folder 20

ELA 75: Lucy (f, 37), 2nd gen.; Henry (m, 39), 3rd gen.

Box 8, Folder 21

ELA 76; Silvia (f, 24) 1st gen.

Box 8, Folder 22

ELA 77: Juan (m, 41); Rosa (f, 43)

Box 8, Folder 23

ELA 78: Robert (m, 46), 3rd gen.

Box 8, Folder 24

ELA 79: Enrique (m, 64)

Box 8, Folder 25

ELA 80: Maria Elena (f, 33), 3rd gen.

Box 9, Folder 1

ELA 81: Julian (m, 58), 1st gen.

Box 9, Folder 2

ELA 82: Laura (f, 22)

Box 9, Folder 3

ELA 83: Ana Maria G. (f, 40), 3rd gen. (2nd rec.)

Box 9, Folder 4

ELA 84a: Joe R. (m, 17), 3rd gen.

Box 9, Folder 5

ELA 85: Mercedes (F, 51), 2nd gen.; Carlos (m, 54), 1st gen.

Box 9, Folder 6

ELA 86: Gilberto (m, 60), 2nd gen.

Box 9, Folder 7

ELA 87: Richard (m, 43)

Box 9, Folder 8

ELA 88: Consuelo (f, 61)

Box 9, Folder 9

ELA 89: Esther Z. (f, 43), 3rd gen.

Box 9, Folder 10

ELA 90a: Diego (m, 45), 3rd gen.

Box 9, Folder 11

ELA 90b: Fortino (m, 21), 1st gen.

Box 9, Folder 12

ELA 91a: Jose Luis (m, 17), 1st gen.

Box 9, Folder 13

ELA 91b: Moises (m, 17)

Box 9, Folder 14

ELA 92: Eva (f, 44), 1st gen.

Box 9, Folder 15

ELA 94: Rufina (f, 55), 2nd gen (II record.)

Box 9, Folder 16

ELA 94b, 95a: Alejo (m, 57)l Beatriz

Box 9, Folder 17

ELA 95a-b: Alejo (m, 57); Phil (m, 54)

Chicano-Adolescents (CS)

Box 4, Folder 4

CS=Chicano-Adolescent [speakers]

Box 4, Folder 5

CS: Tape contents

Box 4, Folder 6

CS: Code-Switching

Box 4, Folder 7

CS 1, 18: Ralph Viramontes

Box 4, Folder 8

CS 2: Liz Perez (f, 17)

Box 4, Folder 9

CS 3, 20: Jose comrade

Box 4, Folder 10

CS 4, 20: Alma

Box 4, Folder 11

CS 5, 20: Vicki

Box 4, Folder 12

CS 6: Delia

Box 4, Folder 13

CS 7, 20: Beatriz

Box 4, Folder 14

CS 8, 19: Miguel

Box 4, Folder 15

CS 9, 10: Isauro Diaz (m, 18)

Box 4, Folder 16

CS 10: Jose Fernandez (m, 17)

Box 4, Folder 17

CS 11: Salvador Roman (m, 17)

Box 4, Folder 18

CS 13: Letty

Box 1, Folder 23

[Chicano adolescents unlabeled transcription draft]

Los Angeles children

Box 9, Folder 18

[Coding]

Box 9, Folder 19

Brian

Box 9, Folder 20

Chris

Box 9, Folder 21

Cindy

Box 9, Folder 22

Daisy

Box 9, Folder 23

Johanna

Box 9, Folder 24

Melina

Box 9, Folder 25

Michael

Box 2, Folder 13

Unidentified interviews

Miscellaneous

Box 4, Folder 19

Bilingualism: language and cognition journal 2014, 2016

Scope and Contents

Issues: Vol. 17, No. 3 (July 2014); Vol. 19, No. 4 (August 2016)

Box 9, Folder 26

[Session outline for a GURT Pre-Session: Grammaticalization Processes in the Spanish of Texas] 1993

Scope and Contents

Photocopied outline with handwritten annotations, 1 p.