Silva-Corvalán (Carmen) papers, 1978-2016

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Summary

Title:
Carmen Silva-Corvalán papers
Dates:
1978-2016
Creators:
Silva-Corvalán, Carmen
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.
Extent:
5.48 Linear Feet 10 boxes
Language:
Spanish; Castilian English
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.

Background

Scope and content:

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.

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).

Acquisition information:
Gift of Carmen Silva-Corvalan, November 2013.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Diann Benti
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-11-05 15:25:19 -0800 .

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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.

Location of this collection:
Special Collections
Doheny Memorial Library, Room 209
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189, US
Contact:
(213) 740-5900
specol@usc.edu
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