R Instruments

For some of our work, we used a reading passage about the Blizzard of ’78. The passage contains 224 words with coda /r/ and is composed of two texts found online and slightly edited (Urbanek 2003, Spina 2005). It consists of a light-hearted, conversational reminiscence of a major blizzard, followed by a series of humorous tips for surviving a blizzard.

Here is the version that participants read (.doc).

Here is a version with each (r)-word marked and numbered. (.doc)

Here is a version with tokens of a variety of other phonological variables marked. (.doc)

• Vowel mergers: short/shot , merry/marry/Mary, father/bother/rather
• short-a (/ae/ as in planet)
• post-coronal jod (Njews)
• (ING)

Here is the coding schema for the linguistic and social factors that we coded for (r). (PDFs)

Here is a blank coding template that we used for (r). (.xls)