## Hastings ## The Hastings corpus consists of recordings of sociolinguistic interviews with 46 speakers from Hastings in the south east of England, male and female, aged from 8-90. The speakers are grouped according to age, as Child (8-10), Young (16-18), Middle (35-50) and Old (65-90). The participants were chosen because they met the criteria of having been born and brought up in Hastings (by Hastings-raised parents if possible), having English as the first and only language, having typical speech and hearing, not having lived outside of Hastings for more than six months and having not attended higher education. The speakers were recorded as part of a project investigating regional dialect levelling. Alignment was carried out using FAVE by the Data Guardian. **Number of speakers:** 46, 20F \ **Hours of speech:** Approx 35 \ **Years recorded:** 2012 \ **Data Guardian:** Sophie Holmes-Elliott\ **Speaker dimensions:** Gender, age group, age, dialect. ### Corpus References ### http://sophieholmeselliott.com/ \ Holmes-Elliott, S. & Turner, J. (2019) The emergence of gendered production between childhood and adolescence: A real time analysis of /s/ in Southern British English. Proceedings from the XVIV International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia. \ Holmes-Elliott, S. (2015). London calling: assessing the spread of metropolitan features in the southeast. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.