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Announcements:

12/29/09: SLAAP and our other services (including NORM) were unavailable for most of the business day while the NCSU Libraries conducted scheduled maintanence on their hardware. We apologize for the down-time. (Happy New Year!)

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

New plug-in function for the vowels.R package (see CRAN or the about NORM page) to plot duration x F1 x F2 in 3D: durplot3d.

TK, 12/29/09

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 December 2009)

over 1,500 interviews;
over 2,600 audio files;
over 1,230 hours of audio!;
over 36 hours of transcribed audio;
over 360,000 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.