## UBC DRAWL Corpus ##
The DRAWL corpus is from the [Determining Regional Accents With Literature (DRAWL)][1] project which aimed examine British Columbian English. Speakers recorded themselves reading a passage designed for the project via a web browser. The reading text can be found in the 'Files' section for this dataset. The recordings were aligned by the Data Guardian using MFA.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If the measurements from this dataset are being used for a journal publication or book, the user must give the University of British Columbia a copy of the proposed publication for checking with three months notice.
**Number of speakers:** 184, 133F \
**Hours of speech:** Approx 11 \
**Years recorded:** 2018 \
**Data Guardian:** Unversity of British Columbia/Molly Babel\
**Speaker dimensions:** subjectcode, VoiceType, Age, Computer, Browser, ChildhoodHomeLanguage, ChildhoodCommunityLanguage, PrimaryAdultHomeLanguage, AdultCommunityLanguage, DailyWeeklyLanguage1, DailyWeeklyLanguage2, DailyWeeklyLanguage3, YearsInBC, CurrentGeoLocation, birLongestBCGeoLocation, LongestBCCommunity, YearsInLongestBCCommunity, MothersBirthCountry, FathersBirthCountry, ParentsFluentLanguage1, ParentsFluentLanguage2, ParentsFluentLanguage3, ParentsFluentLanguage4, MaternalGrandmotherCountry, MaternalGrandfatherCountry, PaternalGrandmotherCountry, PaternalGrandfatherCountry, GrandparentLanguages1, GrandparentLanguages, GrandparentLanguages3, GrandparentLanguages4, OtherLanguage1, OtherLanguageReadWrite1, OtherLanguageSpeaking1, OtherLanguageListening1, OtherLanguage2, OtherLanguageReadWrite2, OtherLanguageSpeaking2, OtherLanguageListening2, ActiveSinger, School Choir, Community/Church choir, College/University choir, Private vocal training, Professional vocal training, Other, YearsSingingInstruction
### Corpus References ###
Babel, Molly, A. Cardoso, K Hayter, R. Pritchard and K Xu, “Populating the map of British Columbia English”. Canadian Linguistic Association CLA-ACL 2019, Vancouver, BC, June 1 – 3, 2019. \
Cardoso, Amanda, K. Xu, M. Babel and R. Pritchard, “Different Means to a Similar End: Apparent time change in British Columbian Englishes” New Ways of Analyzing Variation 48 (NWAV 48), Eugene, Oregon, October 10-12, 2019.
[1]: https://blogs.ubc.ca/drawl/projectstatement/
