History, administration and policies on use

The Cross-Language Articulatory Database (CLAD) was created in 2013-16 at the University of Toronto by Professors Laura Colantoni (Spanish and Portuguese, UofT St. George), Alexei Kochetov (Linguistics, UofT St. George), and Jeffrey Steele (Language Studies, UofT Mississauga)

As a publicly funded research and teaching tool, it is not for commercial use. Individuals interested in using it for non-commercial research or teaching should contact Alexei Kochetov (al.kochetov@utoronto.ca) to obtain access.

Users who present data or analyses of data taken from the CLAD are asked to acknowledge their source as follows:


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