## Pacific Northwest ##
The Pacific Northwest English project explores the extent of English dialect development in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The PNW recordings shared with SPADE are of scripted speech.
The Pacific Northwest recordings were aligned by the Data Guardian using FAVE.
**Number of Speakers:** 71, 41F \
**Hours of Speech:** 30 \
**Years Recorded:** 2006 \
**Data Guardian:** Alicia Beckford Wassink \
**Dimensions:** sex, birth year, age, city, region, ethnicity
### Corpus References ###
Beckford Wassink, A. (2016). The vowels of Washington State. Fridland, Beckford Wassink, Kendall & Evans (eds.). Speech in the Western States Volume 1: The Coastal States. Publication of the American Dialect Society (PADS). Volume 101:1. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. pages 77-105. \
Beckford Wassink, A. (2015). Sociolinguistic patterns in Seattle English. Language Variation and Change 27:1, 31-58.
