File: speaker.txt ------------------ Explanation of information in speaker.tbl The file speaker.tbl contains information about the speakers in this corpus. There are 59 speakers in Part III of this corpus, and a line for each one appears in speaker.tbl. Each line is comprised of 11 comma separated fields, corresponding to the following information: 1. speaker id 2. name used in transcript 3. gender 4. age 5. dialect of english 6. dialect state 7. current state 8. highest level of education 9. years of education 10. occupation 11. ethnicity The names indicated in the table are pseudonyms, and correspond to the names in the transcripts. Missing or truncated fields in the table reflect information that was not obtained from the participants.