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LDC2003T15 *<br>
* SLX Corpus of Classic
Sociolinguistic Interviews *<br>
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The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is pleased to announce the
availability of the SLX Corpus of Classic Sociolinguistic Interviews <br>
<br>
The SLX Corpus of Classic Sociolinguistic Interviews contains 8
sociolinguistic interviews with a total of 9 speakers. William Labov
and one of his students conducted the interviews in the 1960s and 70s.
These interviews represent solutions to the problems of achieving
cross-cultural contact, reducing the effect of the Observer's Paradox
and approximating the vernacular of everyday life. <br>
<p>The corpus includes the complete interview recordings plus
time-aligned verbatim transcripts for each speaker. Also included in
the publication is a sociolinguistic variable survey that represents an
overview of the intra- and inter-speaker variation attested in the
corpus, highlighting a broad range of phonological, phonetic,
grammatical, lexical and stylistic variables. Finally, the publication
includes a number of annotation tools that allow users to listen to
each interview while browsing the corresponding transcripts, and to
display and hear each token identified in the variable survey. </p>
<p>The SLX Corpus was developed as part of the <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Projects/DASL">Data and Annotations for
Sociolinguistics (DASL) Project</a>, an investigation of best practices
in the use of digital speech corpora for the study of language
variation. The recordings demonstrate successful interviewing
techniques, the sound quality is high, and the digitization,
segmentation and transcription of the data represent best practice in
these areas. The variable survey highlights over 150 sociolinguistic
variables attested in the corpus and suggests avenues for further
research. Most importantly, the SLX Corpus provides both an example of
a digital speech corpus developed specifically to support
sociolinguistic research, and a stable benchmark for training in
sociolinguistic data collection, digitization, segmentation,
transcription, analysis and publication. </p>
<p>The SLX Corpus contains 17 speech files (22050Hz, 16 bit,
single-channel in the MS WAV (RIFF) format), for a total of 575 minutes
(~ 1.5GB). The data is distributed on DVD-ROM.<br>
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<p>For further information, including online documentation, please
visit:<br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2003T15">http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2003T15</a><br>
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<p>The cost of the first 100 copies of this publication (not including
the copies distributed to LDC members) is covered by NSF Grant Number
BCS-998009, and therefore free of charge. After these first 100 copies
are distributed, additional copies will be available for the production
cost of $100 per disc.<br>
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<p>If you need additional information before placing your order, or
would like to inquire about membership to the LDC, please send email to
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu"><ldc@ldc.upenn.edu></a>
or call 1 (215) 573 1275.<br>
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