The «Corpus oral de la lengua española en la Suiza francófona» (COLESfran)

Abstract

This article presents the interviews that are being conducted since 2013 at the University of Lausanne to constitute the Oral Corpus of the Spanish Language in French-speaking Switzerland (COLESfran). It presents the objectives, methodology and contents of the corpus, informs about some researches based on its data, as well as about the next challenges of the project, and also indicates a series of contact phenomena that can be observed among the corpus participants of the first generation.