## Edinburgh Corpus - Arthur the Rat ## The Edinburgh corpus consists of a selection of the readings of “Arthur the Rat” as recorded by both staff and students at the University of Edinburgh, from the end of 1949 through to the mid 1960s. The recordings were later digitised. Although 711 recordings in total are publicly available for download (at https://datashare.is.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/392), only a small subset have word- and phone- level TextGrids (MAUS-aligned), kindly provided by James Kirby at Edinburgh University, and it is this subset used for the measurements posted here. The recordings are mainly of speakers of fairly Standard Scottish English as spoken in Edinburgh (in the late 40s to mid 60s), with some Scottish speakers almost entirely RP. In addition there are three English RP speakers. The reading text can be found in the 'Files' section for this dataset. **Number of Speakers:** 42, 29F \ **Hours of Speech:** about 1.5 \ **Year Recorded:** 1949-1966 (mostly 1961-1966) \ **Data Guardian:** none, public \ **Speaker Dimensions:** name, age, place of birth, year of birth place of residence, high school and university (if relevant) attended, native language, other languages spoken, mother and father place of birth, recording date, language variety (as determined by the Glasgow RA who checked the corpus), and some RA notes. Note that language variety has in many cases been given as Scottish (Edinburgh) but this is still fairly standard as opposed to vernacular. ### Corpus Reference ### University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics and English Language. (2013). Arthur the Rat, 1949-1966 [sound]. http://dx.doi.org/10.7488/ds/163.