The "up" corpus: A corpus of speech samples across adulthood

Susanne Gahl; Emily Cibelli; Kathleen Hall; Ronald Sprouse

doi:10.1515/cllt-2013-0023

The "up" corpus: A corpus of speech samples across adulthood

Susanne Gahl^*, Emily Cibelli, Kathleen Hall, Ronald Sprouse

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We describe a speech corpus based on the "Up" series of documentary films by director Michael Apted, showing a set of individuals at seven year intervals over a period of 42 years. The corpus is meant to facilitate phonetic, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic research on age-related change in speech during young and middle-age adulthood. The corpus contains audio files, transcripts time-aligned at the level of utterance, word, and segment, F0 and vowel formant measurements of portions of the films, featuring eleven participants at ages 21 through 49. The corpus is freely available to researchers upon request.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	315-328
Number of pages	14
Journal	Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
Volume	10
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2013-0023
State	Published - Oct 1 2014

Keywords

Michael Apted (director)
Sociolinguistics
aging
corpora
language development
speaking tempo
talker age
talker variability
vocal aging
vowel formants

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Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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