In the recordings made without prior knowledge of the main participants, the narnes used in the transcriptions are fictitious but prosodically equivalent to the originals. Speakers denoted by upper case letters have been surreptitiously recorded. Some of the texts are comPosite and contain 'subtexts', either with the same speakers, or recorded in a comparable setting. This material is the property of the Survey of English Usage, University College London, and is made available to specialist scholars for the purposes solely of scientific research and must not be distributed or reproduced, wholly or in part, for any other purpose. The corpus consists of 100 texts, each of 5000 words, totalling 500.000 running words of spoken British English.
Records make up complete or incomplete TUs.
Speakers often interrupt each other and, consequently, TUs may be split up into so-called links. TU links may be interwoven. Every TU consists of at least one link. Within each link, therefore, lines have been numbered, in decreasing order. S.9.3 is ansaphone calls 3.