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Citation

Plug, Leendert (2024) Leeds Multi-Session Corpus of Standard Southern British English. University of Leeds. [Dataset] https://doi.org/10.5518/1547¹

Dataset description

The Leeds Multi-Session Corpus of Standard Southern British English is a publicly available, 16-speaker dataset of Southern Standard British English speech, created at the University of Leeds between 2022 and 2024. The speakers are all females in the age range 18-35. The corpus was designed to allow for substantive analysis of intra-speaker variation. To this end, participants performed a series of commonly employed speech production and control tasks repeatedly, in 6 to 8 near-identical sessions. Consecutive sessions were separated by at least 2 weeks. Audio recordings were segmented by task to allow for the compilation of data subsets suitable for a range of phonetic analyses. The speech production tasks include a word production task, a passage reading task, and a sentence reading task in which participants produced sentences in multiple tempo and style conditions. The control tasks included a finger tapping task and a nonsense syllable repetition task. The dataset should be of interest to a range of speech researchers including those working in forensic phonetic practice.

Additional information:	This corpus is held in the Restricted Access Data Repository, RADAR. To request access, please click the link under ‘Related resources’. You will be prompted to complete a request form including your proposed use of the dataset. You will then receive an initial response to your request within 10 working days.
Keywords:	Speech, Southern Standard British English, Audio, Word productions, Sentence productions, Reading passage, Clear speech adjustments, Speech tempo adjustments, Intra-speaker variation, Linguistics, Phonetics, Psychology
Subjects:	Q000 - Linguistics, classics & related subjects > Q100 - Linguistics2 Q000 - Linguistics, classics & related subjects > Q100 - Linguistics > Q130 - Phonetics & phonology > Q131 - Phonetics3 C000 - Biological sciences > C800 - Psychology4
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures > School of Languages, Cultures and Societies5
Related resources:	Location Type https://radar.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/63/6 Dataset
Date deposited:	21 Nov 2024 09:30
URI:	https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/13457
Additional details Additional details Creators or authors: Creators ORCID Other ID Email Primary affiliation Primary affiliation ID Primary affiliation ID type Secondary affiliation Secondary affiliation ID Secondary affiliation ID type Plug, Leendert https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6884-13118 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Type of data: Dataset Contributors: Contribution Name ORCID Other ID Email Primary affiliation Primary affiliation ID Primary affiliation ID type Secondary affiliation Secondary affiliation ID Secondary affiliation ID type Project manager Plug, Leendert https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6884-13119 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Data collector Carter, James University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Data manager Ternes Dallagnollo, Patricia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3116-369210 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Data manager Norton, Chris University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Research funders: British Academy, Leverhulme Trust Collection period: Date from Date to 20 February 2023 17 July 2023 Grant numbers: SG2122/210829 Publication date: 2024 Resource language: English Metadata language: English Research project title: How variable is speech, how reliable are single recordings? Assessing the medium-term dynamics of speech through iterative data collection Publisher: University of Leeds Contact email: l.plug@leeds.ac.uk11 Last Modified: 25 Nov 2024 13:08

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