## Northern Englishes - Manchester ## Northern Englishes Manchester is a selection of speakers from the Manchester subset of the Northern Englishes corpus. The part of Manchester corpus shared with the SPADE project consists of general interviews with pairs of speakers. Extracts from every speaker were prepared and MAUS-aligned by as part of the SPADE project. However, the quality of the alignment was variable and the poorest quality speakers were therefore excluded. Note that the sibilants dataset contains only praat-derived measures; multitaper spectral measures will be posted in due course. **Number of speakers (post-exclusion):** 30, 15F \ **Hours of Speech:** approx 14 \ **Years recorded:** 2008-13 \ **Data Guardian:** Corpus is publicly available via the UKDS, Bill Haddican for information.\ **Speaker Dimensions:** age, gender ### Corpus Reference ### Haddican, W., Foulkes, P. (2013). A comparative study of language change in Northern Englishes. [data collection]. UK Data Service. SN: 851013, http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-851013 \ NOTE: Please inform the UKDS about any publications or outputs based on the Northern Englishes Derby dataset.