Warriner English Affective Ratings

We have collected affective norms of valence, arousal, and dominance for 13,915 English words (lemmas). They are a complement of our age-of-acquisition ratings and subtitle word frequencies.

Authors:  Marc Brysbaert,  Victor Kuperman,  and Amy Warriner
Updated:  2013-01-05
Source:  http://crr.ugent.be/archives/1003
Keywords:  semantics,  crowdsourcing,  word-frequency,  English,  emotion

CLEARPOND: Cross-Linguistic Easy-Access Resource for Phonological and Orthographic Neighborhood Densitites

CLEARPOND provides a user-friendly, web-based interface for obtaining Dutch, English, French, German and Spanish phonological and orthographic neighborhood densities (or, PONDs).

Authors:  Viorica Marian,  James Bartolotti,  Sarah Chabal,  Anthony Shook
Updated:  2012-04-30
Source:  https://clearpond.northwestern.edu/index.html
Keywords:  linguistics,  phonetics,  neighborhood-density,  database,  lexicon,  Dutch,  English,  French,  German,  Spanish

British Lexicon Project

Database of lexical decision times for approximately 14,000 English words and nonwords responded to by British participants.

Authors:  Emmanuel Keuleers,  Paula Lacey,  Kathleen Rastle,  Marc Brysbaert
Updated:  2012-01-01
Source:  http://crr.ugent.be/blp
Keywords:  text-database,  lexicon,  behavioural-perception,  visual-word-recognition,  lexical-decision,  megastudy,  virtual-experiment,  english

Source Repetition Stimuli

We used a simple generative model to synthesize novel sounds with naturalistic properties. We found that such sounds could be segregated and identified if they occurred more than once across different mixtures, even when the same sounds were impossible to segregate in single mixtures.

Authors:  Josh H. McDermott,  David Wrobleski,  Andrew J. Oxenham
Updated:  2011-01-18
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/source_repetition/index.html
Keywords:  speech,  audition,  sound-sources,  acoustics,  English

Strathy Corpus of Canadian English

The Strathy Corpus of Canadian English is a product of the Strathy Language Unit at Queen's University. The corpus contains 50 million words from more than 1,100 spoken, fiction, magazines, newspapers, and academic texts.

Authors:  W.C. Lougheed
Updated:  2010-04-30
Source:  https://www.english-corpora.org/can/
Keywords:  English,  linguistics,  corpora,  language

Neighborhood Density Measures for 57,153 English Words.

An online database of neighborhood density measures for over 50,000 English words

Authors:  Cyrus Shaol,  Chris Westbury
Updated:  2010-04-30
Source:  https://www.psych.ualberta.ca/~westburylab/downloads/westburylab.arcs.ncounts.html
Keywords:  English,  neighborhood density,  orthography,  frequency

Cocktail Party Problem

The cocktail party problem is the task of hearing a sound of interest, often a speech signal, in a complex auditory setting.

Authors:  Josh H. McDermott
Updated:  2009-04-30
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/cocktail_examples/index.html
Keywords:  audition,  speech,  noise,  frequency,  English

IEMOCAP: The Interactive Emotional Dyadic Motion Capture Database

An acted, multimodal and multispeaker database containing approximately 12 hours of audiovisual data, including video, speech, motion capture of face, text transcriptions.

Authors:  Carlos Busso,  Murtaza Bulut,  Chi-Chun Lee,  Abe Kazemzadeh,  Emily Mower,  Samuel Kim,  Jeannette N. Chang,  Sungbok Lee,  Shrikanth Narayanan
Updated:  2008-11-09
Source:  https://sail.usc.edu/iemocap/
Keywords:  emotions,  behavior,  speech,  gesture,  motion-capture,  english

Dutch Bilingualism Database

The Dutch Bilingualism Database contains over 1,500 sessions from a number of projects and research programs that were directed at investigating multilingualism.

Authors:  Pieter Muysken
Updated:  2008-04-30
Source:  http://portal.clarin.nl/node/4175
Keywords:  bilingual,  multilingualism,  language,  Arabic,  Berber,  Dutch,  English,  Papiamento,  Sarnami,  Sranan,  Turkish

The Buckeye Speech Corpus

A large phonetically transcribed database of casueal speech

Authors:  Mark Pitt,  Laura Dilley,  Keith Johnson,  Scott Kiesling,  William Raymond,  Elizabeth Hume,  Eric Fosler-Lussier
Updated:  2007-04-30
Source:  https://buckeyecorpus.osu.edu/php/publications.php
Keywords:  English,  Transcriptions,  Phonetics