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Announcements:

We're happy to announce an updated version of the NORM website and the release of the vowels package for R (available from CRAN and the About NORM page). We hope you find them useful.

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

TK, 02/17/09

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 June 2009)

over 1,300 interviews;
over 2,250 audio files;
over 1,040 hours of audio!;
over 33 hours of transcribed audio;
over 325,000 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.