## Raleigh ##
The Raleigh Corpus is a corpus of conversational speech recorded from Americans resident in Raleigh, North Carolina. SPADE includes a subset of the Raleigh corpus, including interviews with 135 white Raleigh speakers. Recordings were aligned using P2FA by the Data Guardian.
**Number of Speakers:** 135, 72F \
**Hours of Speech:** 120 \
**Year Recorded:** 2008-2017 \
**Data Guardian:** Robin Dodsworth \
**Speaker Dimensions:** birth year (ranging from 1919 to 1996), sex
### Corpus References ###
Dodsworth, R. & Benton, R. (2019). Language variation and change in social networks: A bipartite approach. Routledge. \
Dodsworth, R. & Benton, R. (2017). Social network cohesion and the retreat from Southern vowels in Raleigh. Language in Society 46, 371-405.