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Announcements:

Apologies that SLAAP has been experiencing some intermittent down-time over the past week. We're working on addressing some hardware issues.

Tyler is now at the University of Oregon. His contact info is here.

SLAAP has a cousin, OSCAAR at Northwestern University, which is being developed as an archive and analysis resource for lab-based recordings and the storage and management of experimental stimuli...

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

The website for Erik Thomas' new book Sociophonetics: An Introduction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) is here at http://ncslaap.lib.ncsu.edu/sociophonetics/.

TK, 4/22/12

What is SLAAP?

The Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project, at North Carolina State University, 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 (as of May 2012)

over 2,600 interviews;
over 4,100 audio files;
over 2,100 hours of audio!;
over 68 hours of transcribed audio;
about 700,000 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, in particular the F. A. Q. page. Kendall 2007a also provides a good general introduction to 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.

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last mod: 2/25/2009