SGER:Transcription of Traditional Appalachian Speech

传统阿巴拉契亚语档案（ATAS）是一个长期项目，以两种格式（文本和音频）汇编100万字的方言语料库，记录在20世纪70年代和80年代的阿巴拉契亚的七个地区，在六个州，包括西弗吉尼亚州南部，肯塔基州东部，弗吉尼亚州西南部，田纳西州东部，北卡罗来纳州西部和格鲁吉亚东北部。该奖项将支持ATAS第一个综合阶段的完成。在七个领域中的四个领域记录的来自50名母语人士的大约280，000个单词将被转录，重新审核和校对，以确保最佳的可靠性和符合语料库语言学领域的惯例标准。南卡罗来纳州大学和东田纳西州立大学的网站上将安装Transit和相关的历史信息。由此产生的可搜索电子语料库将成为当地和家庭历史学家，语言学家，民俗学家和其他学者的宝贵资源。ATAS将成为美国英语任何地区或社会变体的最大的易于公开访问的会话数据库。转录的录音将代表一个全面的资源，对不同的生活方式，性格和经验的农村阿巴拉契亚美国人出生在二十世纪之交。这个项目将有助于消除对该地区的负面刻板印象，对于那些生活在阿巴拉契亚的人来说，它将是一个宝贵的社区资产，记录他们的言论和生活方式。

The Archive of Traditional Appalachian Speech (ATAS) is a long-range project to compile in two formats (text and audio) a one-million-word corpus of vernacular speech recorded in the 1970's and 1980's from seven areas of Appalachia, in six states including southern West Virginia, Eastern Kentucky, Southwest Virginia, East Tennessee, Western North Carolina, and northeast Georgia. This award will support completion of the first comprehensive stage of ATAS. Approximately 280,000 words from fifty native speakers recorded in four of the seven areas will be transcribed, re-audited, and proofed to ensure optimal reliability and conformity to conventions standard in the field of corpus linguistics. Transcriptions and associated historical information will be mounted on websites maintained at the University of South Carolina and at East Tennessee State University.The resulting searchable electronic corpus will be an invaluable resource for local and family historians, linguists, folklorists, and other scholars. ATAS will be the largest bank of easily and publicly accessible conversational data for any regional or social variety of American English. The transcribed recordings will represent a comprehensive resource on the diverse lifestyles, character and experiences of rural Appalachian Americans born around the turn of the twentieth century. This project will help dispel negative stereotypes of the region, and for those who live in Appalachia, it will be a valuable community asset documenting their speech and way of life.