## Kansas ## This corpus was compiled as part of the [Kansas Speaks][1] project which aimed to document language variation and change throughout the Great Plains region. The project examined how children's accents change during the school years and beyond, and how cultural geographic factors interface with trajectories of language change. This corpus of sociolinguistic interviews was aligned using FAVE by the Data Guardian. **Number of speakers**: 72, 40F \ **Hours of speech**: 49 \ **Years recorded**: 2016-2020 \ **Data Guardian**: Mary Kohn \ **Speaker dimensions**: gender, birth year, ethnicity, location, county ### Corpus References ### García, T. & Kohn, M. (2018) Lateral production in Liberal, Kansas: Minority alignment to the new majority. Paper presented at NWAV 47: New Ways of Analyzing Language Variation. New York, NY. October. \ Villarreal, D. & Kohn, M. (2018) Local meaning for supra-local change: A perception study of TRAP backing in Kansas. Paper presented at Sociolinguistic Symposium 22. Auckland, NZ. June. [1]: https://www.k-state.edu/english/kspeak/