Director:
William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.

Status of work:
Field work complete in 2003. Direct CD recordings; some full transcriptions have been completed.

Areas covered:
Fulton and DeKalb counties in the Atlanta, GA, metropolitan area.

Subjects:
18 speakers selected by random phone sampling, with later in-person interviews. African American and nonAfrican American subjects, stratified by gender and occupational status.

Nature of recordings:
Guided conversational interview expected to last one hour, adapted from Western States interview. Fixed format elicitation in which speakers read words from cards.

Archives:
Original materials are archived in the Special Collections repository of the Library, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602. For access to original materials, contact the Linguistic Atlas Project office.