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Announcements:

I've removed the links for the old "about SLAAP" and "SLAAP's features" pages. They were very out-of-date and seem less necessary now that some of my recent papers on SLAAP are available. I've also started a F. A. Q. page in hopes of providing more information about the project. Please let me know if you have questions that could or should be added to the F. A. Q.

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

TK, 06/26/08

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 (as of 8/18/08)

over 1,000 interviews!;
over 1,800 audio files;
over 770 hours of audio;
about 31 hours of transcribed audio;
over 301,000 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.