 Research Projects: The Suburban Chicago Adolescent Sociolect Project (1997-1999) The Suburban Chicago Adolescent Sociolect Project (SCASP) was a field recording project carried out by David Durian in March, 1997. During the course of the project, David obtained data from 19 adolescent speakers of a sociolect spoken in the Chicago Suburb of Homewood-Flossmoor. The speakers, ranging from ages 13-23, were recorded via a series of 19 sociolingusitic interviews. Additionally, a series of naturally occurring conversations elicited from a subgroup of the speakers were recorded at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, IL, during an outing in March 1997. The tapes from this outing, now referred as the "zoo study" are comprised of several hours of conversation rich with sociolectal, performative, and stylistic variation. |
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