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. 2020 May 29;3:38. doi: 10.3389/frai.2020.00038

Table 1.

Number of speakers and tokens per dialect (left), and by corpora from which each dialect was derived.

Region Dialect n Speakers n tokens Corpus n speakers n tokens
North America Canada (rural) 52 9,313 Canadian Prairies 44 8,316
ICE-Canada 8 997
Canada (urban) 64 12,124 Canadian Prairies 56 11,939
ICE-Canada 8 185
Midwest US 40 5,567 Buckeye 40 5,567
New England 24 1,336 Santa Barbara 7 174
Switchboard 17 1,162
North Midland US 46 3,084 Switchboard 46 3,084
Northern Cities US 21 1,377 Santa Barbara 21 1,377
Northern US 58 3,086 Switchboard 58 3,086
NYC 25 1,477 Santa Barbara 6 158
Switchboard 19 1,319
Philadelphia 371 59,581 PNC 371 59,581
Princeville NC (AAE) 71 6,759 CORAAL 17 6,759
Raleigh US 92 3,282 Raleigh 92 3,282
Rochester NY (AAE) 14 6,308 CORAAL 14 6,308
South Midland US 108 8,188 Switchboard 108 8,188
Southern US 44 2,738 Santa Barbara 6 345
Switchboard 38 2,393
Washington DC (AAE) 50 21,205 CORAAL 50 21,205
Western US 100 5,456 Santa Barbara 50 2,900
Switchboard 50 2,556
United Kingdom & Ireland Central Scotland 24 2,426 SCOTS 24 2,426
East Central England 51 2544 Audio BNC 51 2,544
East England 229 20,727 Audio BNC 132 6,622
Doubletalk 5 726
Hastings 44 12,642
ModernRP 48 737
Edinburgh 18 1,148 SCOTS 18 1148
Glasgow 177 33,938 Brains in Dialogue 23 9,210
SCOTS 27 2,294
SOTC 127 2,2434
Insular Scotland 8 351 SCOTS 8 351
Ireland 19 624 Audio BNC 19 624
Lower North England 60 3,325 Audio BNC 60 3,325
North East England 17 488 Audio BNC 17 488
Northern Scotland & Islands 33 2280 SCOTS 33 2,280
Scotland 70 3,468 Audio BNC 65 2,633
Doubletalk 5 835
South West England 50 2,067 Audio BNC 50 2,067
Wales 41 2,524 Audio BNC 41 2,524
West Central England 41 2,615 Audio BNC 41 2,615
Total 1,964 229,406