LINGUIST List 29.1701
Fri Apr 20 2018
Software: Corpus of Regional African American Language
Editor for this issue: Kenneth Steimel <kenlinguistlist.org>
Date: 20-Apr-2018
From: Charlie Farrington <crf
uoregon.edu>
Subject: Corpus of Regional African American Language
E-mail this message to a friend The Corpus of Regional African American Language (CORAAL, version 2018.04.06) is available at:
https://oraal.uoregon.edu/coraal CORAAL is the first public corpus of African American Language (AAL). The corpus features sociolinguistic interviews from regional varieties of AAL and includes audio recordings along with orthographic transcription time-aligned at the utterance level. All recordings have been anonymized and are available in high-quality uncompressed (.wav) format, and transcripts are available in three formats, Praat TextGrid (.TextGrid) files, ELAN (.eaf) files, and as plain text (.txt) files with tab-delimited fields.
CORAAL is a long-term corpus-building project conceived of in terms of several components. The first two components of CORAAL focus on AAL in Washington DC, the nation’s capital, a city with a long-standing African American majority, and the site of much early research on AAL (e.g. Fasold 1972). The first supplemental component of CORAAL, CORAAL:PRV, released in April 2018, makes available data for a sample of speakers from a rural community in central North Carolina. Together, these include data from over 100 sociolinguistic interviews from speakers born between 1891 and 2005 and comprise approximately a million words of transcribed conversational speech.
CORAAL is available for free, public use for research purposes. It is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
For additional questions, please contact the CORAAL development team directly via email: corpusofregionalAAL
gmail.com
Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s):
English (eng)
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