## Sounds of the City ## Sounds of the City is a real-time corpus of 163 speakers of Glaswegian English (141 vernacular Scots; 22 Standard Scottish English). The corpus covers an effective real- and apparent-time span of around 100 years. It was constructed in order to examine changes in Glaswegian pronunciation over time. The corpus was aligned in LABB-CAT by the Data Guardian. **Number of Speakers:** 163, 63F, all Standard speakers M. \ **Hours of Speech:** Approx 63 \ **Year Recorded:** 1970s-2000s \ **Data Guardian:** Jane Stuart-Smith \ **Speaker Dimensions:** vernacular/Standard Scottish English, age group (Older, Middle, Younger), gender, recording decade. ### Corpus References ### Sonderegger, M., Stuart-Smith, J., Knowles, T., Macdonald, R. and Rathcke T. (2020). Structured heterogeneity in Scottish stops over the twentieth century. Language, 96(1), pp. 94-125. \ Stuart-Smith, J., José, B., Rathcke, T., Macdonald, R. and Lawson, E. (2017) Changing sounds in a changing city: an acoustic phonetic investigation of real-time change over a century of Glaswegian. In: Montgomery, C. and Moore, E. (eds.) Language and a Sense of Place: Studies in Language and Region. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 38-64.\ Sounds of the City: The role of fine phonetic variation in sound change. The Leverhulme Trust RPG-142 \ How Stable is the Standard. The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland