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pith:2026:YIBO5FN4YG27QQXOBGTNE7E6ON

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Introducing MELI: the Mandarin-English Language Interview Corpus

Molly Babel, Suyuan Liu

The MELI Corpus provides matched Mandarin and English speech from 51 bilingual speakers to enable acoustic comparisons linked to language attitudes.

arxiv:2603.27043 v2 · 2026-03-27 · cs.CL

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C1strongest claim

The MELI Corpus design supports within-/cross-speaker, within/cross-language acoustic comparison and links acoustics to speakers' stated language attitudes, enabling both quantitative and qualitative analyses.

C2weakest assumption

The 51 speakers and their recorded sessions provide a representative sample of Mandarin-English bilingual speech and attitudes without major biases from recruitment, recording conditions, or self-reporting.

C3one line summary

MELI is a new 29.8-hour open-source speech corpus from 51 Mandarin-English bilinguals including full transcriptions, word/phone alignments, metadata, and attitude data for quantitative and qualitative bilingual research.

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First computed	2026-05-20T00:00:37.148583Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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c202ee95bcc1b5f842ee09a6d27c9e7360454f40cafb1fe3838fa17a8b586166

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arxiv: 2603.27043 · arxiv_version: 2603.27043v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.27043 · pith_short_12: YIBO5FN4YG27 · pith_short_16: YIBO5FN4YG27QQXO · pith_short_8: YIBO5FN4

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