DoReCo

Durational differences between homophonous va affixes and non-morphemic va in Bora (Northwest Amazon) Acoustic differences between homophonous morphemes raise concerns for mainstream models of language production. But evidence for such differences so far comes a

/va/ and /va/ are not homophonous: New study shows durational differences between—presumably—homophonous forms in Amazonian Bora, based partially on DoReCo time-alignment: doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

Fascinating new study on intonation units, with groundbreaking cross-linguistic breadth, using mostly DoReCo data

Big thanks to @laboratoireddl.bsky.social also for the excellent collaboration on the technical side of the DoReCo database!

Kicking of DoReCo's Bluesky presence with a bang: DoReCo 2.0 was published today, featuring open-access, time-aligned spoken corpora on, by now, 53 language, ca. 7,000 words each, with morpheme glosses for 38 of them. Check it out at doreco.huma-num.fr