Sound recording

project: French interlanguage oral corpora

Grant Holder: Professor Florence Myles
Unlike first language acquisition (L1) research, which has made use of digital technologies for over 20 years to assist its research (in the shape of a powerful suite of software tools for the transcription, analysis and storage of L1 oral learner data, the CHILDES system, now used as standard), the field of second language acquisition (L2) research has been very slow in taking advantage of the new computerised technologies now available. This one-year project aimed to (1) apply and adapt the CHILDES tools to French L2 oral data, (2) to construct a database of French Learner Language Oral C [read more]

project: Designing Shakespeare: an audio-visual archive 1960-2000

Grant Holder: Dr Christie Carson
Research Questions and Problems Can a comprehensive audio-visual archive of performance information encourage further research into performance in English Departments and support teaching in Drama and Theatre Studies Departments? Can oral history interviews with designers add significantly to the study of performance? Can access to a large database of digital images based around a design theme encourage greater emphasis on the visual elements of performance for scholars and students of Shakespeare? What can we conclude about the development of theatre design, theatre spaces and thea [read more]

project: A Linguistic 'Time-Capsule': The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English

Grant Holder: Prof. Karen Corrigan
The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (NECTE) resource amalgamated and future-proofed two discrete sets of spoken data including recordings from people born within the Tyneside conurbation between 1890 and 1970. The overarching aim was to improve access to and promote the re-use of NECTE by producing an electronic public database resource in a variety of aligned formats which can be accessed according to user need via a gatekeeping system so as to fully comply with the Data Protection Act. [read more]

project: British Academic Spoken English (BASE) corpus

Grant Holder: Dr Hilary Nesi
The project enhances the British Academic Spoken English (BASE) corpus, which functions as a companion to the Michigan Corpus of Spoken Academic English (MICASE), a record of North American academic speech. [read more]

project: The Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Grant Holder: Professor Clive Upton; Mr Chris Sheppard
The aim of the Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture (LAVC) project is to unlock the full research potential of the large and varied archive of the University's former Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies, now stored in the Brotherton Library’s Special Collections, by creating an innovative electronic resource. The core of the archive, on the dialect side, is the material generated by the well-known Survey of English Dialects, which gathered its raw materials primarily in the 1950s and 1960s. [read more]

project: A corpus-based study of speech, thought and writing presentation in contemporary spoken British English

Grant Holder: Professor Mick Short
The Lancaster Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation Spoken Corpus has been built as part of an AHRB-funded project to investigate the nature of speech, writing and thought presentation (SW&TP) in contemporary spoken British English. [read more]

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