Results of Grant Competition for the Creation of Spoken Language Corpora Announced

The results of the competition for grants to create spoken language corpora, which was held by the International linguistic convergence laboratory from May 30th to June 25th, have been announced. The scientific committee selected five winners who will receive funding to create their corpora.

The laboratory would like to thank everyone who sent in an application for their participation. The winners will create audio corpora of dialectal and contact variations of Russian and dialects of other languages of Russia. The following participants have been selected:

• Balabin Fedor Alekseevich, Ter-Avanesova Aleksandra Valeryevna (Moscow)
  The South-Russian dialect of the village Malinino in the Khlevensky rayon of Lipetsk oblast.
• Ivanova Kira Aleksandrova (Saint-Petersburg)
  A contact variety of Russian, which is in contact with the upper dialect of Chuvash.
• Maltseva Vera Sergeyevna (Moscow)
  The Kazan and Piltir sub-dialects of the Sagay dialect of Khakas (Askiz and Tastyp rayons of the republic of Khakassia).
• Moroz Andrey Borisovich (Moscow)
  North-Eastern dialects of Belorussian (or according to another classification – Western dialects of Russian): Zlynov rayon of Bryansk oblast.
• Say Sergey Sergeyevich (Saint-Petersburg)
  The Bashkir language spoken in the villages Rakhmetovo and Baimovo of the Abzelilov rayon in the republic of Bashkortostan.

The laboratory would like to congratulate the winners of the competition and wish them good luck with the work on their corpora.