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Author: Rachel MacDonald

SPADE at R-atics 7

December 16, 2021 Rachel MacDonald

November 2021

SPADE features in the presentation R 3 Ways: Capturing variability in word-final /r/ in Scottish English, given at the R-atics conference held at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 18th-19th November 2021.

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SPADE at UKLVC 13

December 16, 2021 Rachel MacDonald

September 2021

SPADE features in the presentation The sociolinguistic dynamics of word final /r/ in Scottish English at the 13th UK Language Variation and Change online conference hosted by the University of Glasgow, 8th-10th September 2021.

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SPADE OSF data repository now live!

June 1, 2021 Rachel MacDonald

December 2020

The first release of the SPADE project OSF data repository is now live and can be accessed at https://osf.io/4jfrm/
In this first release, we make available acoustic measures for sibilants and durations and static formants for vowels, for 39 corpora (~2200 hours of speech analysed from ~8600 speakers), anonymised where required, with information about dataset generation.

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SPADE at virtual JK28 conference satellite workshop on experimental phonetics and phonology

June 1, 2021 Rachel MacDonald

December 2020

SPADE features in the talk Viewing accent variation from a large corpus perspective: Rhoticity in Scottish English at the virtual 28th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference satellite workshop on experimental phonetics and phonology given on 28th December 2020.

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SPADE presentation at Australian Linguistic Society 2020 online conference

June 1, 2021 Rachel MacDonald

December 2020

The SPADE project presentation Persuading birds of a feather to flock together – reflections on managing and measuring diverse speech corpora in SPADE was given at the Australian Linguistic Society 2020 online conference on 14th December 2020.

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SPADE talk at Cornell Linguistics Circle

June 1, 2021June 1, 2021 Rachel MacDonald

December 2020

The SPADE project talk The SPADE project: Large-scale analysis of a spoken language across space and time was given at the Cornell Linguistics Circle on 3rd December 2020.

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SPADE publication in “Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.”

July 14, 2020 Rachel MacDonald

The SPADE project article “Toward “English” Phonetics: Variability in the Pre-consonantal Voicing Effect Across English Dialects and Speakers” has been published in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and can be accessed here.

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Sibilant talk slides online for virtual LabPhon17

June 24, 2020 Rachel MacDonald

June 2020

Presentation slides for the SPADE talk Desperately seeking ‘English’ sibilants: Discovering dialect norms and speaker variability for /s S/ from large-scale, multi-dialect analysis are now online in advance of the virtual LabPhon17 conference to be ‘held’ July 6-8 2020.

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Try the SPADE Shiny app!

May 20, 2020December 15, 2021 Rachel MacDonald

May 2020

Try out our SPADE: Speech over time and space Shiny app here: https://shiny.chass.ncsu.edu/spade/latest/

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SPADE at the ICAME41 ‘English Corpus Phonetics and Phonology’ pre-conference digital workshop

May 20, 2020June 1, 2021 Rachel MacDonald

May 2020

SPADE is a feature of the presentation What can corpus phonetics tell us about ‘English’ phonology? given at the ICAME41 pre-conference digital workshop English Corpus Phonetics and Phonology, hosted by the University of Trier, Germany.

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