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New server!: SLAAP is now on new hardware. It's possible (though hopefully unlikely) that bugs were introduced in the migration - please let Tyler know if you encounter any problems. Otherwise, look for new features in the near future...

NORM: Thomas and Kendall's vowel normalization and plotting software can be found on the tools page.

TK, 04/01/08

What is NC SLAAP?

The North Carolina Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project is an interactive web-based archive of sociolinguistic recordings, with integrated media playing and annotation features, as well as phonetic analysis and corpus analysis tools designed for enabling and improving empirical linguistic inquiry.

The archive is constantly growing, but currently contains

over 720 interviews;
over 1,400 audio files;
over 500 hours of audio;
over 28.25 hours of transcribed audio;
over 270,000 words of orthographically transcribed speech, accurately time-stamped and linked to the audio

from a variety of languages (predominately American dialects in North Carolina and the southeastern United States).

More information is available by following the links on the left. You may want to visit the about the project page, which details some of rationale and theoretical background for the project. Some information about the features of the software are discussed on the features page. (Please note: these pages are slightly out-of-date; updates are forthcoming.) Kendall 2007a also provides a good general introduction to NC SLAAP.

With thanks to the North Carolina State University Libraries, the North Carolina Language and Life Project, and the William C. Friday Endowment at NC State University for their support.