Speaker sample and metadata for BNClab-M subcorpus (a modified version of the BNClab subcorpus)
This file lists speakers and their characteristics in what we call the BNClab-M subcorpus. This subcorpus is a modified version of the BNClab subcorpus, created at Lancaster University (Brezina et al. 2018) as a sociolinguistically balanced and comparable subset from two demographically-sampled conversation corpora - the British National Corpus of 1994 (Burnard 2007) and the British National Corpus of 2014 (Love et al. 2017).
The speaker sample in BNClab-M largely follows that in BNClab, but has been modified in an attempt to improve cross-time comparability. Modifications include i) restriction to speakers from England only, and to speakers designated as either working class or middle class; ii) reassignment of the social class of some speakers; and iii) addition of a few speakers from the parent BNCs that were not included in BNClab.
Speaker classifications are by year (1994 or 2014), gender (female or male), age (18-44 or 45-and-over), region (five regions of England), and social class (working class or middle class).
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