presentations and publications

The following are papers and presentation materials about, or arising from, SLAAP. Scroll down for a working paper and a link to the SLAAP User Guide.

Kendall, Tyler (2009c). Speech Rate, Pause, and Linguistic Variation: Evidence from North America. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 38: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. October 2009.

• Slides (Handout Format), PDF, 1.9mb, 6 pages

Kendall, Tyler (2009b). The Value of Relational Databases for Time-Aligned Annotation. American Association of Corpus Linguistics (AACL) 2009: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. October 2009.

• Slides (Handout Format), PDF, 1.9mb, 8 pages

Kendall, Tyler, Gerard Van Herk, and Joan Bresnan (2009). The Dative Alternation in African American English: Researching Syntactic Variation and Change in a Conglomerated Corpus. American Association of Corpus Linguistics (AACL) 2009: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. October 2009.

• Slides (Handout Format), PDF, 572kb, 5 pages

Kendall, Tyler (2009a). Speech Rate, Pause, and Linguistic Variation: An Examination Through the Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project. Doctoral Dissertation. Duke University.

• Dissertation, PDF, 13.1mb, 279 pages
• Summary (sort of)

Newman, John (2008). Spoken Corpora: Rationale and Application. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 6.2: 27-58.

• Paper, PDF, 560kb, 32 pages

Kendall, Tyler (2008b). Identity, Performance, and Consciousness: The Use of Locally Salient Linguistic Forms in a Formerly Isolated Community. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 37: Houston, TX. November 2008.

• Abstract, PDF (on conference website)
• Handout, PDF, 368kb, 6 pages

Kendall, Tyler (2008a). On the History and Future of Sociolinguistic Data. Language and Linguistics Compass, 2.2: 332-351. Blackwell Publishing.

• Available upon request

Kendall, Tyler, Christine Mallinson, and Kaye Whitehead (2007). New Ways of Analyzing African American English: Examining the Speech of Adolescent Girls in Washington, DC. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 36: Pennsylvania, PA. October 2007.

• Handout, PDF, 1.6mb, 6 pages
  Note: Table 3 in the version of the handout distributed at NWAV 36 was incorrect. This is fixed here. Apologies.

Kendall, Tyler (2007b). On the Status of Pause in Sociolinguistics. Linguistic Society of America 2007 Annual Meeting: Anaheim, CA. January 2007.

• Handout, PDF, 616kb, 5 pages

Kendall, Tyler (2007a). Enhancing Sociolinguistic Data Collections: The North Carolina Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 13.2: 15-26. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.

• Paper, PDF, 896kb, 11 pages

Kendall, Tyler (2006-2007). Advancing the Utility of the Transcript: A Computer-Enhanced Methodology, Linguistica Atlantica, 27-28: 51-55.

Kendall, Tyler (2006). The North Carolina Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project: Empowering the Sociolinguistic Archive. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 35: Columbus, OH. November 2006. Poster.

• Brochure/Handout, PDF, 292kb, 2 pages

Kendall, Tyler and Amanda French (2006). Digital Audio Archives, Computer-Enhanced Transcripts, and New Methods in Sociolinguistic Analysis, Digital Humanities (ALLC/ACH) 2006: Paris, France. July 2006.

• Abstract, PDF, 276kb, 3 pages (pp. 110-112 of Conference Abstract book, which is available here)

Kendall, Tyler (2006). A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Pause in North Carolina, Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL) LXXII: Auburn, Alabama. April 2006.

Kendall, Tyler (2005). Advancing the Utility of the Transcript: A Computer-Enhanced Methodology, Twelfth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology: Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. August 2005.

French, Amanda (2005). North Carolina State University Libraries Report to the Digital Library Federation, April, 2005.

working papers

Kendall, Tyler (2007). Automatic Transcript Summarization and Keyword Generation for the North Carolina Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project, NC SLAAP Working Papers, March 5th, 2007. PDF, 1.3mb, 13 pages.

user guide

SLAAP User Guide (a work in progress)