The standard questionnaire has two versions: a 70-situation (complete) version and a 31-situation (abridged) version.

• Standard questionnaire, complete version
• Standard questionnaire, abridged version

The Atlas research groups adapted the intonation survey to the following dialects:

• Central Peninsular Spanish
• Cantabrian Spanish
• Canarian Spanish
• Puerto Rican Spanish
• Dominican Spanish
• Mexican Spanish
• Venezuelan Andean Spanish
• Ecuadorian Andean Spanish
• Chilean Spanish
• Argentinian Spanish

At least two subjects have been surveyed in the abovementioned locales. Subjects surveyed were mostly women aged between 25 and 45 years.
The intonation pattern for each utterance is described in a file which contains the fundamental frequency contour as measured using the Praat program, the audio file, a description of the melodic curve, the ToBI prosodic labeling (see Sp_ToBI) and an interpretation (in Spanish) of the utterance.

Instructions for questionnaire elicitation

The objective of the guided questionnaire is to obtain spontaneous utterances though the oral presentation of contexts which induce different types of utterances and intentions. It is very important that the informants do NOT read the contexts or the possible answers (the answers that appear in the questionnaires are for the researcher's approximate reference and do not have to coincide with the spontaneous responses.) One decisive factor that should be noted before administering the questionnaire to informants is that it should be adapted to the specific dialect under investigation. By making this adaptation, lexical items and sayings that do not exist in that dialect will not appear in the questionnaire, ensuring that possible misunderstandings of the situation are avoided.
Before beginning the questionnaire the researcher should explain to the informant that he/she should attend to the situation and respond in the most natural, spontaneous way possible, as if the situation were actually happening at that moment. The ideal method is for the researcher to explain the discourse context to the informant in a very clear way,  assuring that the context is understood. The reading/explanation of the discourse context (without modifying the situation) guarantees that the same context is always maintained, and in this way it can be used for purposes of comparison with other interviews and across dialects. Another important factor is that when the informant produces each utterance, the researcher is checking to make sure that each utterance type/intention produced is in line with the desired type (interrogative, statement of the obvious, etc.). If the informant produces an utterance which is not of the type desired, the researcher must ask the informant to reformulate their response.

Each person participating in a survey must give his/her written consent to the processing of personal data, including his/her voice. To this end, he/she must complete and sign a personal information form and a consent form.

Map Task Dialogue Corpus

The Map Task is a validated technique in which two subjects cooperate to complete a specified task. It is designed to cause the subjects to produce particular interrogative patterns. Each of the two subjects has a map of an imaginary town marked with buildings and other specific elements such as fountains and monuments. A route is marked on the map of one of the two participants (see map-giver1 and map-giver2), and that person has the role of the instruction-giver. The version of the same map held by the other participant (see map-follower1 and map-follower2) differs from that of the instruction-giver in that it does not show the route to be followed. The second participant therefore has to ask the instruction-giver questions in order to be able to reproduce the same route on his or her own map.
An audio recording of the performance of the Map Task and its corresponding orthographic transcription can be accessed for each locale.

Each person participating in a map task dialogue must give his/her written consent to the processing of personal data, including his/her voice. To this end, he/she must complete and sign a personal information form and a consent form.

Videotaped conversations

For each locale the Atlas group conducted interviews of 10 to 15 minutes. A representative segment of conversation has been chosen for each locale and posted on this website. The segment is available in both video format and the corresponding orthographical transcription is also provided.

Each person participating in a videotaped conversation must give his/her written consent to the processing of personal data, including his/her voice and image. To this end, he/she must complete and sign a personal information form and a consent form.

All data, in different formats, are available for free through our website for academic and research purposes.

Guidelines for researchers

Guidelines for researchers interested in taking part in this project can be downloaded here.