dialect samples

[Shelley Velleman]

Thanks to everyone who sent suggestions for on-line audio dialect  
samples.  Based on your replies, here's what I found:
http://accent.gmu.edu/:  Samples of speakers of many dialects and  
first languages, all reading the same English text, 69 words long.

http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/dare.html   DARE excerpts: Arthur  
the Young Rat and spontaneous speech

http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/DARE/# -- small #  
of longer spontaneous speech samples from DARE

http://www.ic.arizona.edu/%7Elsp/index.html  Some varieties have  
samples; not all

http://www.otago.ac.nz/anthropology/Linguistic/Sounds/Sounds4.html   
New Zealand, Australia, "England", "American"; all reading the same  
passage, 3-4 sentences long.

http://www.fonetiks.org/  "American", various UK, other languages

http://www.uga.edu/lsava/Topics/Language%20Variation/Language% 
20Variation.html:  videos of Ocracoke, Lumbee; discussion of  
Spanglish and verb tenses


Shelley Velleman
UMass - Amherst
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