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As a part of the ORAAL project, we have developed the first public corpus of AAL data, the Corpus of Regional African American Language ( CORAAL). CORAAL features recorded speech from regional varieties of AAL and includes the audio recordings along with time-aligned orthographic transcription.

CORAAL is a long-term corpus-building project conceived of in terms of several components. The first two components of CORAAL focus on AAL in Washington DC, the nation's capital, a city with a long-standing African American majority, and the site of much early research on AAL (e.g. Fasold 1972). In April 2018, the first additional component, CORAAL:PRV, was released, making available data for 16 speakers from a rural community in central North Carolina. In October 2018, we released CORAAL:ROC, a subset of sociolinguistic interviews conducted by Sharese King as a part of her dissertation project in Rochester, NY (King 2018). In May 2020, we released CORAAL:ATL, a friendship network from Atlanta, as well as newly transcribed recordings from CORAAL:ROC. In July 2021, we are pleased to release two new components, CORAAL:LES, oral history recordings from the Lower East Side of Manhattan, NY, and CORAAL:VLD, sociolinguistic interview recordings from Valdosta, GA. Details about CORAAL Components can be found here.

Together, CORAAL include data from over 150 sociolinguistic interviews from speakers born between 1891 and 2005 and over a million words of accurate time-aligned transcription of conversational speech.

All interviews have been anonymized and orthographically transcribed with time-alignment at the utterance level. Audio is available in high-quality uncompressed (.wav) format, and transcripts are available in three formats, Praat TextGrid (.TextGrid) files, ELAN (.eaf) files, and as plain text (.txt) files with tab-delimited fields.

In addition to the official components of CORAAL, beginning in May 2020, ORAAL also features a related set of materials, CORAAL Supplements, representing recordings or selections from larger datasets important to the field of sociolinguistics. These CORAAL Supplements highlight newly available datasets that are available publicly but are not part of CORAAL's official components.

Phone-level aligned TextGrids and a language model are now available through LingTools using the Montreal Forced Aligner.

Update, July 2021: A new version of CORAAL is available now, featuring two new components, CORAAL:LES, featuring speakers from Dr. Kara Becker's dissertation work from the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York, as well as CORAAL:VLD, sociolinguistic interviews with speakers from Valdosta, a small city in South Georgia.

CORAAL is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (4.0) International license ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). It is available for free and is downloadable from the above link.

More information is available in the , and we suggest you read that document for full information about the corpus. As a part of their work on their paper in American Speech, "Contextualizing the Corpus of Regional African American Language DC: AAL in the Nation's Capital", Charlie Farrington and Natalie Schilling prepared an extensive reference list of publications related to AAL in Washington, DC; you can access the reference list here.

As with the ORAAL project, CORAAL was developed with support from the National Science Foundation (Grant No. BCS-1358724), and the University of Oregon.

Kendall, Tyler and Charlie Farrington. 2021. The Corpus of Regional African American Language. Version 2021.07. Eugene, OR: The Online Resources for African American Language Project. http://oraal.uoregon.edu/coraal

See the CORAAL User Guide for information about citing CORAAL's individual components.

Contact the CORAAL development team with any questions or comments about CORAAL.

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As a part of the ORAAL project, we have developed the first public corpus of AAL data, the Corpus of Regional African American Language ( CORAAL). CORAAL features recorded speech from regional varieties of AAL and includes the audio recordings along with time-aligned orthographic transcription.

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The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a set of symbols that linguists use to describe the sounds of spoken languages.

This page lets you hear the sounds that the symbols represent, but remember that it is only a rough guide. There is lots of variation in how these sounds are said depending on the language and context. For example, in English voiceless plosives usually end with a puff of air called aspiration, but the voiceless plosives on this page aren't aspirated.

Choose a symbol to hear the sound it represents.

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Vowels

Pulmonic consonants

Bilabial

Labiodental

Dental

Alveolar

Post alveolar

Retroflex

Palatal

Velar

Uvular

Pharyngeal

Glottal

Non-pulmonic consonants

Clicks

Voiced implosives

Ejectives

ǁ Alveolar lateral

ʛ Uvular

ʼ etc...

Other symbols

ʍ Voiceless labial-velar fricative

w Voiced labial-velar approximant

ɥ Voiced labial-palatal approximant

ʜ Voiceless epiglottal fricative

ʢ Voiced epiglottal fricative

ʡ Epiglottal plosive

ɕ Voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative

ʑ Voiced alveolo-palatal fricative

ɺ Alveolar lateral flap

ɧ Simultaneous ʃ and x

Affricates

t͡s Voiceless alveolar affricate

t͡ʃ Voiceless palato-alveolar affricate

t͡ɕ Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate

ʈ͡ʂ Voiceless retroflex affricate

d͡z Voiced alveolar affricate

d͡ʒ Voiced post-alveolar affricate

d͡ʑ Voiced alveolo-palatal affricate

ɖ͡ʐ Voiceless retroflex affricate

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