SouthAL Corpus


Kimberly Smith
Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology
University of South Alabama


Browsable transcripts

Downloadable transcripts

Media folder

Participants: 8 PWA, 8 controls
Type of Study: Gray Oral Reading Test
Location: USA
Media type: video
DOI: doi:10.21415/T5BT3K

Citation information

In accordance with TalkBank rules, any use of data from this corpus must be accompanied by at least one corpus reference.

Smith, K. G., & Clark, K. F. (2019). Error analysis of oral paragraph reading in individuals with aphasia, Aphasiology, 33(2), 234-252. DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2018.1545992

Smith, K. G., & Ryan, A. E. (2020). Relationship between single word reading, connected text reading, and reading comprehension in persons with aphasia. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 29(4), 2039-2048.

General Overview

The 16 passages from the Gray Oral Reading test are transcribed in CHAT format. The transcripts were done to allow for automated analysis using the SCRIPT program in CLAN (Section 7.22 in the CLAN manual). HOWEVER, individual researchers will need to modify the transcripts based on their criteria for acceptable vs unacceptable error productions. Acceptable error productions are marked with square brackets and a single colon; unacceptable error productions are marked with square brackets and a double colon. The default transcriptions are done in an extremely conservative fashion (using mostly double colons).

Participant Information -- Controls

Demographic and test result data are available here.