Finding mushroom corpus of formal and informal Malay sentences

Singapore Malay is a highly diglossic language with two discrete registers. Formal Malay is characterised by several literary features that are absent in the informal variety, such as the use of affixes. Informal Malay can be marked by contractions of one or more words. There are also some systematic differences in pronunciation such as an optional realization of the /i/ and /u/ phonemes in closed final syllables as [e] and [o], respectively, and the /a/ phoneme in open final syllables as [ǝ]. This corpus contains audio recordings of 120 sentences of spoken Malay (60 formal; 60 informal) as well as spliced audio tokens containing a mix of formal and informal cues (60 formal-informal; 60 informal-formal), used as target stimuli in the Mushroom Hunting EEG study, along with 32 additional sentences that formed part of the procedure. Raw recordings from the initial recording sessions are also included. Full details of the sentences, the speaker, the audio recording and editing procedure are included. The speaker has consented to the audio being archived in this repository. This collection of audio was created as part of a Masters Thesis Project by the first author, in collaboration with her supervisor.