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Accent bias and fair access in Britain 2017-2020
The accent bias project examines attitudes to major accents in England, changing attitudes across age groups, attitudes to new urban dialects, and explores how accent interferes with assessments of professional ability. Using a combination of insights from sociolinguistics, social psychology, and labour market economics, we explore accent bias in relation to a number of...
Variation and change in the vowel system of Manchester
The dataset contains the F1 and F2 values (in Hz) of each vowel phoneme in the speech of 66 speakers from Manchester, representing different genders, generations, social classes and ethnicities, i.e. White British, Pakistani, and Black Caribbean.
The goal of the project is to elucidate of the mechanisms of language change and dialect differentiation by examining changes...
WYRED - West Yorkshire Regional English Database 2016-2019
The West Yorkshire Regional English Database (WYRED) consists of approximately 200 hours of high-quality audio recordings of 180 West Yorkshire (British English) speakers. All participants are male between the ages of 18-30, and are divided evenly (60 per region) across three boroughs within West Yorkshire (Northern England): Bradford, Kirklees, and Wakefield. Speakers...