ABSTRACT
The Greater Poland Spoken Corpus has been collected with a view to registering spontaneous speech data, as opposed to televised or radio performances, of standard as well as vernacular language users (94 speakers, 63 female, 31 male) from the province of Greater Poland. Besides spontaneous speech, GPSC also includes recordings of speech produced as a response to an elicitation technique aimed at procuring a formal register, i.e., a word list. We believe that the corpus of the Poznan variety will be a unique and valuable resource for phonetic, phonological, dialectal, discourse, sociolinguistic, language variation and change studies. In this chapter, we are demonstrating one possible application of the GPSC, namely studying present-day variation in Poznań Polish, with implications for language change in this variety.
