The Cross-Language Articulatory Database (CLAD) is an on-line research and teaching tool containing tagged video samples of electropalatography (EPG) data from a variety of languages. The data includes read isolated words, sentences, and passages designed to illustrate various segmental aspects of the phonetics and phonology of the following languages or varieties: L1 English, French, Japanese, Serbian, and Spanish; L2: English. The database was developed by Professors Laura Colantoni (Spanish and Portuguese, UofT St. George), Alexei Kochetov (Linguistics, UofT St. George), and Jeffrey Steele (Language Studies, UofT Mississauga). Please see the links below for more information.
To begin querying the database, click on one of the links below.
If you are a first time user, you may wish first to read about the corpora or the basics of undertaking queries.