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This 3-year project investigates language change in five urban dialects of Northern England—Derby, Newcastle, York, Leeds and Manchester. Data collection method: Linguistic analysis of speech data (conversational, word list) from samples of different northern English urban communities. Data collection consisted of interviews, which included (1) some structured questions about the interviewee and their experience of the city, (2) an informal, unstructured chat, and (3) a word list, which participants were asked to read out loud. Two types of data files: (1) spontaneous: was collected by telling the pairs they could talk about whatever they wanted, but giving them some sheets with sample questions on to give them some ideas; and (2) ethnographic: participants were asked a number of questions.