Analysing expressives in a spoken corpus of Majorcan Catalan

Abstract

[eng] The materials under analysis here are a collection of twelve folk tales, randomly selected for inclusion from among thirty-five in the Corpus Oral de la Llengua Catalana, an oral corpus by Institut d'Estudis Catalans, the official academy of the Catalan language.1 Initially collected and composed in written form by Antoni M. Alcover (1862-1932), they have been repeatedly reprinted since initial publication in 1880, when they rapidly became a classic that replaced local oral story-telling (Guiscafrè 2007). The recordings by Francesc de B. Moll in thelate 1950s follow the texts collected and arranged by Alcover. The titles