North Yorkshire Dialect Corpus based on Oral History Recordings

今年我去英国做了一次研究旅行。在此期间，我参观了米德尔斯堡的提赛德档案馆、克利夫兰铁矿石矿业博物馆、斯金宁格罗夫、约克的公民档案馆，以及吉斯伯勒、雷德卡和米德尔斯堡的参考图书馆收藏的其他当地藏品。我与米德尔斯堡的蒂赛德档案馆合作最密切，那里收藏了大量口述历史，尽管其中大部分尚未数字化。重要的是，档案管理员提供了项目第一年所需的45份录音和其他数据的副本。按照计划，我把重点放在1986年以来的县努力口述历史项目的录音上。尽管我收集了打印的transmitting来工作，但打印质量不是很好，所以OCR工作得不是特别好，需要手动改进，这很耗时。现已准备了足够数量的录音（约20个一小时的录音），这已经是一个相当大的数据量，可以使用语料库工具进行搜索。我已经在2022年与克利夫兰铁矿石矿业博物馆的档案管理员进行了初步接触，并获得了录音，但由于博物馆的翻新，直到最近才能获得幸存的书面文件。我已经收集了足够的数据，开始对选定的方言特征进行初步研究。基础工作已作出的研究涉及不定式结构，特点的约克郡地区。我打算在2023财年将其写下来。

This year I made one research trip to England. During this time, I visited Teesside Archives, in Middlesbrough, the Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum, Skinningrove, the Civic Archives in York, as well as other local collections held at reference libraries at Guisborough and Redcar, and Middlesbrough. I worked most closely with Teesside Archives in Middlesbrough, which houses a large oral history collection, though much of it is not yet digitised. Importantly, the archivists sourced and allowed me to have copies of transcripts of 45 recordings and other data necessary for the first year of the project. As planned, I focussed on the recordings of the County Endeavour Oral History Projects from 1986. Even though I gathered typed transcriptions to work with, the print quality was not great, so OCR did not work especially well and manual improvements were needed, which was time-consuming. A sufficient number (about 20 one-hour recordings) of the recordings are now prepared, which is already a considerable amount of data that can be searched using corpus tools. I have already had initial contacts with the archivists at the Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum in 2022 and gained access to recordings, but the surviving written documentation was not accessible until recently due to renovations of the museum. I have collected sufficient data to begin preliminary studies of selected dialectal features. Groundwork has been made on a study involving infinitival constructions, characteristic of the Yorkshire area. I will aim to write this up in fiscal year 2023.