The Montclair Map Task Corpus is a collection of files associated with a study of conversational interaction conducted in the Speech Communication Laboratory at Montclair State University. The corpus is useful for anyone interested in investigating naturally-produced, unscripted, task-oriented conversational speech among pairs of English-speaking individuals. The talkers completed an iconic map-matching task with 6 pairs of maps in 16 same-sex female, 16 same-sex male, and 16 mixed-sex pairings. Conversations ranged from 16 to 62 minutes in duration, averaging 32 minutes. This corpus was collected in March-May of 2013 (first 24 pairs) and in May of 2014 (last 24 pairs) as part of a large-scale study of phonetic convergence in spoken communication funded by the National Science Foundation PAC program (BCS #1229033, Jennifer Pardo, Principal Investigator).
The corpus comprises 48 .wav files containing 2-channel audio recordings, 48 Praat .TextGrid files with segmentation and annotation data for each audio recording (viewable with audio files in Praat), and 48 .csv files containing data extracted from the .TextGrid annotations. Additional supporting documents include a .pdf file with 12 Map Task images (6 pairs), a .pdf file containing a listing of all landmark label phrases, and a .csv file with demographic information for all talkers.
A more detailed description of the corpus can be viewed in the MMTC Description document listed below. For a reprint of a journal article detailing the corpus collection methods and preliminary analyses, see the MMTC Publication document below.
The corpus files may only be used for research purposes. Therefore, access to the files is limited to individuals at institutions with IRB oversight of research projects. To request access to the corpus files, contact the corpus administrator, Dr. Jennifer Pardo at pardoj@montclair.edu.
Corpus Citation: Pardo, J. S., Urmanche, A., Gash, H., Wiener, J., Mason, N., Wilman, S., Francis, K., & Decker, A. (2018). The Montclair Map Task Corpus of Conversations in English. Linguistic data corpus available at http://digitalcommons. montclair.edu/mmt_corpus.
General Files
MMTC Description, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Map Task Documents, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Talker Demographics, Jennifer S. Pardo
Recording Files
MMTC Female Pair 01, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Female Pair 02, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Female Pair 03, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Female Pair 13, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Female Pair 14, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Female Pair 15, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Female Pair 16, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Female Pair 17, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Female Pair 25, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Female Pair 26, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Female Pair 27, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Female Pair 28, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Female Pair 29, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Female Pair 30, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Female Pair 31, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Female Pair 32, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Male Pair 04, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Male Pair 05, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Male Pair 06, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTc Male Pair 18, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Male Pair 19, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Male Pair 20, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Male Pair 21, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Male Pair 22, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Male Pair 33, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Male Pair 34, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Male Pair 35, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Male Pair 36, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Male Pair 37, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Male Pair 38, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Male Pair 39, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Male Pair 40, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Mixed Pair 07, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Mixed Pair 08, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Mixed Pair 09, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Mixed Pair 10, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Mixed Pair 11, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Mixed Pair 12, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Mixed Pair 23, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Mixed Pair 24, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Mixed Pair 41, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Mixed Pair 42, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Mixed Pair 43, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Mixed Pair 44, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Mixed Pair 45, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Mixed Pair 46, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Mixed Pair 47, Jennifer S. Pardo
MMTC Mixed Pair 48, Jennifer S. Pardo