## Origins of Liverpool English (OLIVE) OLIVE is a corpus of speakers from Liverpool and two nearby smaller towns, St Helens and Skelmersdale. The corpus consists of archive recordings of speakers (born between 1890 and 1943) from each location, and recordings of older (born between 1918 and 1942) and late teen speakers (born between 1992 and 1994) from each location made (in around 2011) as part of the project. The archive recordings consist of sociolinguistic interviews and the older/teen recordings consist of informal peer-paired interviews and a reading passage read by each member of the pair. The recordings were aligned in LaBB-CAT by the Data Guardian. **Number of speakers:** 114, 55F \ **Hours of Speech:** 58 \ **Years recorded:** 1990s, 2010s \ **Data Guardian:** Kevin Watson \ **Speaker Dimensions:** name, gender, year_of_birth, approx_rec_year, approx_age, locality ### Corpus References ### ESRC grant no esrc RES-061-25-0458 \ Watson, K., & Clark, L. (2017). The Origins of Liverpool English. In R. Hickey (Ed.), Listening to the Past: Audio Records of Accents of English (Studies in English Language, pp. 114-141). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781107279865.007