Lexical variation in the BBC Voices Recordings

Lexical variation in the BBC Voices Recordings

This paper presents preliminary findings from the lexicographic strand of a British Library (BL) project to document variation in British English. Voices of the UK (VoUK) is the first attempt to present significant amounts of raw data emerging from a nationwide survey of spoken English in the UK sin...

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Published in:English today 2012-12, Vol.28 (4), p.23-37
Main Author: Robinson, Jonnie
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Accentuation
British English
dialectology
Dialects
English language (Modern)
Lexicography
lexicology
linguistic corpus
Radio
Scholarly Method and Resources
Sociolinguistics
The English Language
Vocabulary
Vocabulary of Contemporary English
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Summary:This paper presents preliminary findings from the lexicographic strand of a British Library (BL) project to document variation in British English. Voices of the UK (VoUK) is the first attempt to present significant amounts of raw data emerging from a nationwide survey of spoken English in the UK since the 1950s. The data derive from the BBC Voices Recordings: a set of group conversations about language, accent and dialect recorded in locations across the UK by BBC Local Radio in 2004 and 2005. The recordings capture speakers from all walks of life exploring their responses to an identical set of prompt words. The result is a large, rich but targeted corpus of lexical variation.
ISSN:0266-0784
1474-0567