Data

The Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English

The Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English consists of over one thousand audio recordings from a wide range of speech events, which also vary in terms of the number of the participants and the institutionality of the event. Professor John Du Bois has led the collection and transcription. Many people have worked on the corpus; one can mention especially Dr. Robert Englebretson who has transcribed many of the tapes and has been active in contributing to the publishing of the third and fourth installments.

The first four published parts of the corpus provide the data mainly used in the project, although the project researchers have access to most of the corpus. The length of an individual tape in the published parts of the corpus extends from 10 to 30 minutes, which totals about 17 hours of transcribed speech.

Du Bois, John W., Wallace L. Chafe, Charles Meyer and Sandra A. Thompson 2000. Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English, Part I. 3 CD-ROMs. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium.

Du Bois, John W., Wallace L. Chafe, Charles Meyer, Sandra A. Thompson and Nii Martey 2003. Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English, Part II. 1 DVD. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium.

Du Bois, John W. and Robert Englebretson 2004. Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English, Part III. 1 DVD. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium.

Du Bois, John W. and Robert Englebretson 2005. Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English, Part IV. 1 DVD. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium.

More information can be obtained from the publisher's web site:
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/

The Oulu Corpus of British and American News Interviews

This corpus was recorded in the United States and in Britain between October 1999 and March 2004. It contains 38 separate programs and approximately 50 interviews. The duration of the individual interviews spans from a couple of minutes to a full hour, which amounts to a total of approximately 20 hours. The corpus contains programs from the following channels: In the USA, CNN (Larry King Live, Crossfire, Late Edition, etc.), FOX (O'Reilly Factor, Fox News) and PBS (Newshour with Jim Lehrer), ABC (This Week, Nightline), CBS (Face the Nation) and NBC (Meet the Press); in Britain BBCWorld (HardTalk with Tim Sebastian) and BBC2 (Newsnight).

"Never in Canada"

Never in Canada is a 60-minute tape which was recorded in Oulu in February 2003 as a data collection and transcription exercise in an undergraduate class on conversation analysis. The recording has three native speakers of English, who were visiting the University of Oulu as exchange students, talking about various everyday issues. Most of this tape has been transcribed in the Linguistics Department at UCSB.

"The Burp"

Burp is a dinner table conversation, which was recorded in the United States in autumn 2001. The tape is four hours long, of which approximately 20 minutes have been transcribed.

Corpus of Conversational Finnish

The project researchers have access to 7,5 hours of face-to-face and telephone conversations from the corpus of conversational Finnish which is maintained by the Department of Finnish Language and Literature at the University of Helsinki (Keskusteluntutkimuksen arkisto, Suomen kielen ja kirjallisuuden laitos, Helsingin yliopisto). The corpus consists of some 340 hours of audio- and video-recorded material from both everyday and institutional interactions. The corpus has not been published, but researchers interested in language and interaction may borrow individual recordings and transcribe material in return.

http://www.helsinki.fi/hum/skl/tutkimus/kesk_arkisto.htm

Scottish Data

The project has access to some Scottish data which comprise conversations recorded at Glasgow University . The use of this material is restricted.