## Sunset Corpus ## The Sunset corpus consists of recordings of speakers from the Sunset neighbourhood of San Francisco. The recordings take the form of sociolinguistic interviews. The corpus consists of European and Chinese American speakers, reflecting the demographic of the neighbourhood. The corpus was re-aligned at Glasgow using MFA as part of the SPADE project. **Number of Speakers:** 28, 15F \ **Hours of Speech:** 24.5 \ **Year Recorded:** 2008-2009 \ **Data Guardian:** Lauren Hall-Lew \ **Speaker Dimensions:** Pseudonym, Sex, birth year (YOB), Interview Year, Ethnicity, Heritage Language. ### Corpus References ### Cardoso, Amanda, Lauren Hall-Lew, Yova Kemenchedjieva, and Ruaridh Purse. (2016). Between California and the Pacific Northwest: The Front Lax Vowels in San Francisco English. In Valerie Fridland, Betsy Evans, Tyler Kendall, and Alicia Wassink, eds. Speech in the Western States, Volume 1: The Coastal States, pp. 33-54. Publication of the American Dialect Society. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. \ Hall-Lew, Lauren. (2013). ‘Flip-flop’ and mergers-in-progress. English Language and Linguistics, 17(2), 359-390.