Audiotapes of English dialects

[Carolyn Chaney]

International English by Peter Trudgill and Jean Hannah (1982) (Edward
Arnold publishers) is pretty good, and it comes with a book...I don't know
about its current availability.  And for teaching students to play around
with accents, I've succesfully used the "Acting with an Accent" tapes and
booklets by David Stern (Dialect Accent Specialists, phone 802-626-3121),
although these are not authentic accents, but rather stage versions.
Still they can be pedagogically useful.

Cheers,

Carolyn Chaney
SFSU

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Barbara Pearson wrote:

> Dear Infochildes,
>
> I've been asked by a non-linguist who is trying to organize
> a program on language awareness for an audiotape of
> different English dialects.  (She's in the US, but I guess
> if there's one of British dialects, that might be useful,
> too.)
>
> She's already familiar with the video American Tongues,
> which would have been my first response for her.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Barbara
>
>
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