dialect samples on-line

[Mary Erbaugh]

Shelley,

Try samples from:

http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/index.html

http://www.evolpub.com/Americandialects/AmDialLnx.html

http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_maps/namerica.php

Other links are possible from Karen Chung's homepage, under 
'accents'  http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/linguistics%20links.htm

Also, try the links from the American Dialect Society  www.americandialect.org

Bill Labov has just published a beautiful Atlas of American English, with 
CD.  It is expensive, but see if your library will buy it from 
Mouton    http://web.uni-marburg.de/linguistik//dgweb/atlas/

Also, have a look at the MLA's wonderful, interactive color maps of 
languages in America.   You can type in zip codes and get user-friendly but 
detailed language breakdowns based on census data of the 30 most commonly 
spoken languages in the US.  www.mla.org

Mary Erbaugh
Center for Asian and Pacific Studies
University of Oregon

www.pearstories.org   (provides speech and text narratives from the 7 major 
Chinese dialects)


At 07:00 AM 1/27/2006 -0500, Shelley Velleman wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm wondering if there are any *free* on-line audio samples of US
>dialects.  The website "icsi.berkeley.edu/real.stp" was mentioned in
>an American Dialect Assn. talk I attended recently, but when I try to
>access it I get "The requested URL /real.stp was not found on this
>server.".
>
>Thanks.
>
>Shelley Velleman
>UMass - Amherst
>
>
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