One feature of oral history interviews which is a crucial prerequisite for investigating dialects in their most original form is that the speakers spent most of their life in one specific geographic area and feel a strong bond with that area.
FRED-S samples speakers who all grew up in Britain some speakers were interviewed more than once and some interviews have more than one speaker, hence the discrepancy between the total number of speakers and texts. A breakdown of the amount of text produced by the different age groups is presented in table 7, a breakdown according to date of birth in table 8. More than two thirds of the speakers are so-called NORMs, i. The ratio of running text produced by male speakers to running text produced by female speakers is roughly , with 87 male and 52 female informants in total.
A breakdown by speaker sex of the textual material in the corpus is shown in table 6. The speakers of each conversation are shown in table 4 , and the sociological information for each individual, like date of birth, age at the time of the interview, sex, etc. Note that the stories told in the corpus are private in nature, which is why the research group took care to anonymise all FRED-S transcripts.
All person and family names were replaced by names of corresponding length and syllable structure. Different tags were used for female and male first names and nicknames, initials and surnames names of objects, companies, brands, etc. Table 7. Table 8. Table 6. Last updated by Henri Kauhanen. Sociolinguistic coverage The speakers One feature of oral history interviews which is a crucial prerequisite for investigating dialects in their most original form is that the speakers spent most of their life in one specific geographic area and feel a strong bond with that area.
