Centre for Language Change In Real Time (LANCHART)

The LANCHART corpus

The foundational goal of the LANCHART Centre is to examine how the spoken language of Danish evolves. We do this with the help of one of the world’s largest corpora of spoken language: The LANCHART corpus. Data for the corpus has been collected from the same informants, with several decades between recordings, and is still being updated with new recordings, transcriptions and annotations. The LANCHART Centre has an expansive IT infrastructure that supports these activities; comprised partly of the corpus search engine Korp, developed by Språkbanken at Göteborgs Universitet.

Access to the LANCHART corpus

You can gain access to the LANCHART corpus through a login key.

If you are teaching a class of UCPH students and want to use the search engine for your lessons, contact our corpus administrator, who will help you gather confidentiality agreements from the students and give them access.

If you want to use the search engine alone, print out the LANCHART centre’s confidentiality agreement, sign it, and send a scan/picture of it to the corpus administrator and a few words about what you wish to research. You will then receive a login.

If you are interested in researching the raw LANCHART data such as full transcriptions and sound (commonly through Praat), contact the corpus administrator to book an appointment at a workstation at the LANCHART Centre.

Annotations in The LANCHART corpus

The LANCHART corpus has a wide variety of annotation layers. Many of them require thorough explanations. We have compiled an overview of the annotations in the document Annotations in the LANCHART corpus:

Annotations in the LANCHART corpus (pdf)

Part of the annotations make up the so-called IIV-coding (IIV stands for intra-individual variation) based on a systematic discourse context analysis. A comprehensive manual of IIV-coding can be found here (currently only available in Danish):

IIV-kodningsmanual (pdf)

There is also a guide for transcribing spoken language for the LANCHART corpus, which gives an overview of our guidelines. It can be downloaded here (currently only available in Danish):

LANCHART-udskrivningsmanual (pdf)

Using Korp

In the top right of Korp, a user guide is available. It is also available on CLARIN-DK's version of Korp, which can be accessed freely.

Projects Overview

Project	Interviews from	Recorded during the	Type	Informants born during	Additional information
Amagerprojektet	Amager (Copenhagen Municipality)	2000s, 2010s	Solo interviews, Group conversations	1990s, 2000s	Recordings from 2009 to 2013 with students from a Copenhagen middle school. A portion of the students are from minority backgrounds. The informants were born between 1994 and 2005. Contact: Janus Spindler Møller Go to the website of Amagerprojektet.
Danske stemmer, AmDa	USA California, (especially Solvang), South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois (especially Chicago), Minnesota, and New York, among others.	1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s	Solo interviews	1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s	Interviews with Danish-born emigrants in the USA and their American-born descendants in three sub-projects from respectively 1966-80, 1990 and 1997-98. The informants were born between 1870 and 1940. Contact: Jan Heegård Petersen Go to the website of the Danske Stemmer-project
Danske stemmer, ArgDa	Argentina (Necochea, Tandil, Tres Arroyos, Eldorado og Buenos Aires)	2010s	Solo interviews	1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s	Recordings from 2014 and 2015 with Danish-born emigrants in Argentina and their Argentinian-born descendants. The informants were born between 1911 and 1971. Contact: Jan Heegård Petersen. Go to the website of the Danske Stemmer-project
Danske stemmer, CanDa	Canada (New Brunswick, Alberta, Ontario)	1970s, 1980s, 1990s	Solo interviews, Group conversations	1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s	Recordings from 1971, 1982 and 1998 with Danish-born emigrants and their Canadian-born descendants. The informants were born between 1891 and 1941. Contact: Jan Heegård Petersen. Go to the website of the Danske Stemmer-project
DGCSS, Bysociolingvistik	Copenhagen (Nyboder)	1980s, 2000s, 2010s	Solo interviews, Group conversations	1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s 1960s 1970s 1990s	Recordings from 1987-1989 and 2005-2010 with informants connected to Nyboder (generation 0-2). Many informants in generations 1 and 2 were recorded twice with about 20 years between recordings. Generation 3 is students from a middle school in Vesterbro. The informants were born between 1918 and 1995. Contact: Marie Maegaard Go to the website of the DGCSS project
DGCSS, familieprojektet	Vinderup (Western Jutland)	2000s	Solo interviews	1930s, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s	Recordings from 2006-2007 with four family members. The informants were born in 1939, 1965, 1989 and 1991. Contact: Marie Maegaard Go to the website of the DGCSS project
DGCSS, Køgeprojektet	Køge (Zealand)	1990s, 2000s	Self-recordings, Solo interviews, Group conversations	1970s, 1990s	Recordings of Danish- and Turkish-speaking middle school students. Several informants are recorded twice with about 10 years between recordings (in 1997 and 2006-08). The informants were born between 1978 and 1992. Contact: Janus Spindler Møller Go to the website of the Køge-project.
DGCSS, Moderne sjællandsk	Næstved (Southern Zealand)	1980s, 2000s	Solo interviews, Group conversations	1960s, 1970s	Recordings of informants from Næstved in Southern Zealand. Many informants are recorded twice with about 20 years between recordings (in 1986-87 and 2007-08). The informants were born between 1968 and 1970. Contact: Marie Maegaard Go to the website of the DGCSS project
DGCSS, Næstved	Næstved (Southern Zealand)	1980s, 2000s	Solo interviews, Group conversations	1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s	Recordings of informants from Næstved in Southern Zealand. Many informants in generations 1 and 2 were recorded twice with about 20 years between recordings (in 1986-89 and 2005-07). The informants were born between 1942 and 1991. Contact: Marie Maegaard Go to the website of the DGCSS project
DGCSS, Odder	Odder (Eastern Jutland)	1980s, 2000s	Solo interviews, Pair interviews	1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s	Recordings of informants from Odder municipality in Eastern Jutland. Many informants in generations 1 and 2 were recorded twice with about 20 years between recordings (in 1986-89 and 2005-07). The informants were born between 1941 and 1990. Contact: Marie Maegaard Go to the website of the DGCSS project
DGCSS, Oksbøl	Oksbøl (Western Jutland)	2010s	Self-recordings	1990s	Recordings from 2011 by students of Blåvandshuk folkeskole. The informants were born between 1997 and 1998. Contact: Marie Maegaard Go to the website of the DGCSS project
DGCSS, Tinglev	Tinglev (Southern Jutland)	1980s, 2000s	Solo interviews	1960s, 1970s	Recordings of informants from Tinglev in Southern Jutland. Informants were recorded twice with about 20 years between recordings (in 1986 and 2009-10). The informants were born between 1967 and 1970. Contact: Malene Monka Go to the website of the DGCSS project
DGCSS, Vinderup	Vinderup (Western Jutland)	1970s, 2000s	Solo interviews, Group conversations	1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s	Recordings of informants from Vinderup in Western Jutland. Many informants in Generation 2 were recorded twice with about 20 years between recordings (In 1978 and 2006-08). Generation 0 and 1 were all recorded in 1973; Generation 2 recording starting in 1978. The informants were born between 1964 and 1992. Contact: Marie Maegaard Go to the website of the DGCSS project
DGCSS, åbne data til clarin.dk	Copenhagen	2010s	Solo interviews, Group conversations	1980s, 1990s	Recordings from 2010 with informants from a Copenhagen high school. Conversations are also available as video recordings. The informants were born between 1989 and 1992. Contact: Marie Maegaard Go to the website of the DGCSS project
Dialekt i periferien, Bornholm	Nexø (Bornholm)	2010s	Solo interviews, Group conversations	1990s, 2000s	Recordings from 2015 with 9th-grade students at Paradisbakkeskolen in Nexø. The informants were born between 1999 and 2000. Contact: Pia Quist Go to the website of the dialekt i periferien-project
Dialekt i periferien, Bylderup	Bylderup (Southern Jutland)	2010s	Solo interviews	1990s	Recordings from 2014 with 9th-grade students at Bylderup Skole. Students were interviewed in part by a sønderjysk speaking interviewer, and in part by a standard Danish speaker. The informants were born between 1998 and 1999. Contact: Pia Quist Go to the website of the dialekt i periferien-project
Dialekt i periferien, Hirtshals	Hirtshals (Northern Jutland)	2010s	Group conversations	1990s	Recordings from 2015 with 9th-grade students of Hirtshals Skolecenter. The informants were born between 1999 and 2000. Contact: Pia Quist Go to the website of the dialekt i periferien-project
LaPUR, Munkebjerg	Odense (Fyn)	2010s	Solo interviews	1990s	Recordings from 2014 with 9th-grade students of Munkebjergskolen. The informants were born in 1999. Contact: Pia Quist Go to the website of the LaPUR-project
LaPUR, Vollsmose	Odense (Fyn)	2010s	Solo interviews, Group conversations	1990s, 2000s	Recordings from 2014-15 with informants living in the Vollsmose district of Odense. The informants were born between 1998 and 2000. Contact: Pia Quist Go to the website of the LaPUR-project
Mette Mortensens speciale	Copenhagen	1970s	Solo interviews	1910s, 1940s	Recordings from 1970-71. Contact: Marie Maegaard Go to the website of the DGCSS project
Urbanisering og sprogforandring i Norden	Vissenbjerg (Fyn)	1980s, 1990s	Solo interviews, Pair interviews	1950s, 1960s	Recordings of informants from Vissenbjerg near Odense. Informants were recorded twice with about 15 years between recordings (in 1983 and 1998-99). The informants were born between 1953 and 1967. Contact: Marie Maegaard Go to the website of the DGCSS project