## Intonational Variation in English (IViE) ## The Intonational Variation in English (IViE) corpus consists of recordings of urban English, Welsh and Irish secondary school pupils (female and male) of around 16 years of age. The pupils conducted a variety of tasks: conversation, adapted map task, sentence reading, a read passage of speech (the story of Cinderella) and story telling from memory (Cinderella). The reading passage was aligned at Glasgow using MAUS as part of the SPADE project and the measurements here are therefore from the reading passage only. The reading text can be found in the 'Files' section for this dataset. The remainder of the corpus is publicly available. The corpus has been split for SPADE analysis into subcorpora according to the variety of English registered by IViE: Belfast, Bradford-Punjabi, Cambridge, Cardiff, Dublin, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Newcastle. **Number of Speakers:** 110, 55F \ **Hours of Speech:** about 9 \ **Years Recorded:** 1998 - 2000 \ **Data Guardian:** public \ **Speaker Dimensions:** dialect, gender, age The corpus has been split into subcorpora according to the variety of English: \ **Belfast** (12 speakers) \ **Bradford** - Bradford Punjabi heritage speakers (13 speakers) \ **Cambridge** (12 speakers) \ **Cardiff** (12 speakers) \ **Dublin** (12 speakers) \ **Leeds** (12 speakers) \ **Liverpool** (13 speakers) \ **London** - West Indian/Jamaican heritage speakers (12 speakers) \ **Newcastle** (12 speakers) #### Corpus Reference: #### Grabe, E., Nolan, F. & Post, B. English Intonation in the British Isles: The IViE Corpus. Phonetics Laboratory, University of Oxford, Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge, ESRC Grant R000237145, 1997-2002.