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the UVic sociolinguistics
research lab: SLRL
Established January
2010.
Director: Dr.
Alexandra DÕArcy
The SocioLinguistics
Research Lab (SLRL)
is located in Clearihue D228c. It currently hosts 3 iMac workstations,
networked via a dedicated server. It also has free workspace for students with
portable laptops. The SLRL hosts LaBB-CAT, a browser-based,
digitally interactive database and search engine that enables researchers to
search across (and interact with) sound files. The SLRL is also home to iSLR Field Recorderª, a custom
iPod/iPad App for sociolinguistic fieldwork that was designed in consultation
with us by the departmentÕs resident programmer/consultant.
iSLR Field Recorder is now
available at the iTunes store, free. iSLR features automatic randomization of word lists, font
size adjustment, interval adjustment, and remote upload of sound and .txt file
copies of presented lists. Download it and try it now. Getting word list data
has never been easier, or more fun.
How to cite iSLR:
DÕArcy, Alexandra and Chris Coey. 2013. iSLR Field Recorder,
version 1.0. Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria.
The SLRL currently
houses (and holds site licenses for) the following corpora, all of which are
available for use by students and faculty in the Department:
Private
corpora:
Canterbury Regional
Corpus, New Zealand (compiled 2006)
St. JohnÕs Youth
English Corpus (compiled 2000)
Survey of Vancouver
English (compiled 1978–1981)
Spoken English in
Victoria Corpus (compiled 2010– )
Diachronic Corpus of
Victoria English, DCVE (under construction)
Synchronic Corpus of
Victoria English, SCVE (under construction)
Public
corpora:
Buckeye Speech Corpus
Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus
of Middle English, 2nd
edition
Penn-Helsinki Parsed
Corpus of Early Modern English
Penn Parsed Corpus of
Modern British English
International Corpus
of English: Canada
International Corpus
of English: Hong Kong
International
Corpus of English: India
International Corpus
of English: Jamaica
International Corpus
of English: Philippines
International Corpus
of English: Singapore
International Corpus
of English: South Africa
Ongoing research and current RAs
in SLRL:
Although just
established in January 2010, the lab has a number of projects already underway:
1. Intensification
in longitudinal perspective
RAs: Michael Wynne,
spring 2010; Stefan Virtue, spring and summer 2010; Taylor Marie Young, fall
2010–spring 2011; Jennifer Lancaster, fall 2011–spring 2012;
Rachelle Funk, summer 2012–
DATA: the ONZE Archive
So far this work has
been presented at CVC IV, June 2010, and NWAV
39, November 2010.
2. A
variationist perspective on grammaticalization and its consequences for
linguistic theory
RA: Luke Maynard,
fall 2010–
DATA: the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English
Some of the
preliminary points from this project were presented at LSA 85 in January 2011.
3. Between the
stall walls*
RAs: Alesia Malec and
Nick Picard, fall 2010–spring 2011
DATA: Victoria
graffiti
* This was the title
of one of my studentÕs papers in LING395 (spring 2010), the inspiration for
this project
4.
Variable, more variable, variablest? 100 years of
adjective comparison
RA: Alesia Malec,
fall 2010–spring 2011
DATA: the ONZE Archive
This work was
presented at Methods XIV in August 2011.
5.
Explorations in local Indigenous Englishes
RA: Sheena Gering
DATA: in development
6. Internet
language: part 1, Chatspeak; part 2, Emoticons
RAs: Rachelle Funk,
Pamela Lehmann, Melissa Yue (fall 2011–spring 2012)
DATA: two online
surveys
7.
The Victoria English Project (SSHRC-funded)
DATA: (1) Diachronic
Corpus of Victoria English [DCVE] (UVic Archives, BC Archives (spoken;
written)) and (2) Synchronic Corpus of Victoria English [SCVE] (spoken)É
UPDATE:
We are very excited to report that the SCVE is now complete. It features 162
Victorians, ages 14–98, born in the years 1913 to 1996. Thank you
Victoria for your generous participation in this project!
Currently in the lab:
Wyatt Galloway (Lab Manager), Caitlin Croteau, Emily Crowder, Nicole Edgar,
Melissa So, Eva Ellis, & Alesia Malec
Some preliminary
points from this project were presented at NWAV 40 in October 2011; read the Times Colonist story here. A paper was also presented at ICEHL 17 in August 2012. Alex DÕArcy will also be making a
public presentation as part of the 50th Anniversary DeansÕ Lecture
Series on December 5 2012, in Victoria.
Visitors
to SLRL:
* Prof. Dr. Brigitte Halford, Associate
Professor: Englisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-UniversitŠt Freiburg, August 2010
* David Lorenz, PhD student: Frequenzeffekte
in der Sprache, Albert-Ludwigs-UniversitŠt Freiburg, September–November 2011
* Dr. Rob
Podesva, Assistant Professor, Linguistics, Stanford, March 2012
* Dr. Malcah
Yaeger-Dror, Researcher, Cognitive Science, University of Arizona,
May 2012
* Prof. Dr. Miriam Locher, Chair of English
Linguistics, University of Basel, November 2012
* Dr. Anita Szakay, PhD Alumna, Linguistics, University of British
Columbia, December 2012
* Dr. Celeste Rodriguez Louro, Assistant
Professor, Linguistics, University of Western Australia, January 2013
NEWS: Sociolinguistics in the news
Alex DÕArcy appeared
on Shaw TV news (The Daily) in March 2011 to discuss chatspeak. Watch the story.
In November 2011, The
Times Columnist ran a piece by Peigi McGillivray about the Victoria English
Project. Access it here. Access the rest of the press on the Project
(a UVic Top
Story of 2011) via AlexÕs research page.
NEWS: Students conferencing
Bridget Henley:
CVC V (May 2011)
Jennifer Lancaster:
BWTL 15 (December 2011)
Taylor Marie Young:
NWAV
39 (November 2010); 10th Annual East-West Center International Graduate Student
Conference on the Asia Pacific Region (February 2011); NWAV 40 (October 2011)
Funding:
Standard Research
Grant, Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada:
ÒVictoria English: Its development and current stateÓ (2011–2014)
The lab has received
funding from the following sources at the University of Victoria:
á a
SSHRC Internal Research Grant, Faculty of Humanities (2010–2011)
á
a SSHRC Internal Research Grant Top-Up Award, Office
of Research Services (2011–2012)
á
a 4A Internal Research Grant, Office
of Research Services (2010–2011)
á
the Work Study Program, Students
Awards and Financial Aid (2010, 2010–2011, 2011–2012,
2012–2013)
The lab has
also received generous start-up support from the Faculty of Humanities at UVic and from
the UVic
ScholarsÕ Fund.