## West Virginia ## The West Virginia corpus of sociolinguistic interviews comes from the [West Virginia Dialect Project][1] which works to gather and analyze information about language diversity and change from native Appalachians. The corpus was aligned by the Data Guardian using FAVE. **Number of Speakers:** 61, 31F \ **Hours of Speech:** 25 \ **Year Recorded:** 1998-2006 \ **Data Guardian:** Kirk Hazen \ **Speaker Dimensions:** birth year, sex, ethnicity, hometown, education, rural/non-rural, class, region, age group ### Corpus References ### Hazen, K. (2018). Listening to Rural Voices: Sociolinguistic Variation in West Virginia. Christine Mallinson & Elizabeth Seale (eds.). Rural Voices: Language, Identity, and Social Change across Place. Washington, DC: Rowman & Littlefield. 75-90. \ Hazen, K., Lovejoy, J., Daugherty, J. & Vandevender, M. (2016). Continuity and change of English consonants in Appalachia. William Schumann & Rebecca Adkins Fletcher (eds.).Appalachia Revisited: New Perspectives on Place, Tradition, and Progress. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. 119–138. [1]: https://dialects.wvu.edu/