[Corpora-List] qu: social effects found using switchboard data?

[Florian Jaeger]

Dear list-members,

I'm part of a research project that uses (the Penn Treebank III portion of) 
the Switchboard corpus for a study on social effects (using the switchboard 
information on speaker gender, education, dialect, and age) on 
morpho-syntactic variation. I'd greatly appreciate any information about 
earlier studies USING SWBD that found social effects (whether on 
morpho-syntactic variation or not). If you didn't find effects that's also 
interesting but since we fail to find effects of several of the above 
variables, I'd be especially interested in other studies that DID find 
social effects using the swbd.

I'd also appreciate links to more information on the coding of social 
variables for the switchboard (e.g. dialect coding maps; reliability of the 
measures; etc.). Pls reply to me directly and I will send out a summary of 
all answers to the list within a week.

Thanks a lot,

Florian


T. Florian Jaeger
Ph.D. student
Linguistics Department,
P: +1 (650) 725 2323
F: +1 (650) 723 5666
U: http://www.stanford.edu/~tiflo/
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