Investigating rhoticity in Scottish Standard English with sociolinguistic interviews and corpus data: Auditory ratings

<p>The dataset is used in an article published in <i>World Englishes</i>. In the article, I test and discuss methodological and theoretical implications of combining classic sociolinguistic interview data with data from a spoken corpus. Thus, the data combined in this set stem from two sources, as explained in the ReadMe:</p><p>Audio-recorded sociolinguistic interviews were conducted in Edinburgh, Scotland by Ole Schützler in March 2008, yielding the material labeled as "TX", "narrative", "questions" and "WL" in the dataset.</p><p>The genre "btal" was taken from the Scottish component of the International Corpus of English (ICE-Scotland), published here: https://github.com/langres/ICE-Scotland.</p><p>The annotation (manually corrected forced alignment) of ICE-Scotland was funded by the German Research Foundation / Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), as specified below, in a project with Ulrike Gut and Ole Schützler as principal investigators and Zeyu Li and Jenny Herzky as research assistants.</p>