## DECTE ##
The Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (DECTE) is an amalgamation of several corpora of Tyneside English recorded in the 1960s/70s, 1990s, and 2007-2010, and consists of sociolinguistic interviews and paired conversations (this varies by speaker). Extracts from each speaker have been aligned with MAUS as part of the SPADE project.
**Number of Speakers:** 136, 74F \
**Hours of Speech:** about 19 \
**Year Recorded:** 1960s/70s, 1990s, 2007-2010 \
**Data Guardian:** Karen Corrigan \
**Speaker Dimensions:** speaker id, gender, age, recording period, dialect1 ('Newcastle'), dialect2 ('England North East'), education, occupation, other info
### Corpus References ###
Arts and Humanities Research Board RE11776 + Arts and Humanities Research Council AH/H037691/1 \
Allen, W., Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P., Moisl, H. and Maguire, W. (2007). The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English, in Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P. and Moisl, H. (eds.)
Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Vol. 2, Diachronic Databases, pp.16-48. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan. \
Corrigan, K.P., Moisl, H.L. and Beal, J.C. (2005). A Linguistic ‘Time-Capsule’: The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English.https://research.ncl.ac.uk/necte/ \
Corrigan, K.P., Buchstaller, I., Mearns, A. and Moisl, H. (2012). The Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English. Newcastle University. https://research.ncl.ac.uk/decte/ \
Mearns, A.J., Corrigan, Karen P. and Buchstaller, I. (2016). The Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English and The Talk of the Toon: Issues in Preservation and Public
Engagement, in Corrigan, K.P. and Mearns, A.J.(eds.) Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora, Volume 3: Corpora for Public Engagement. Houndmills, Basingstoke:
Palgrave-Macmillan, pp.177-210.
