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Shelley,<br><br>
Try samples from:<br><br>
<a href="http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/index.html<br><br>
</a>
<a href="http://www.evolpub.com/Americandialects/AmDialLnx.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.evolpub.com/Americandialects/AmDialLnx.html</a><br><br>
<a href="http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_maps/namerica.php" eudora="autourl">
http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_maps/namerica.php</a><br><br>
Other links are possible from Karen Chung's homepage, under
'accents'
<a href="http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/linguistics%20links.htm" eudora="autourl">
http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/linguistics%20links.htm<br><br>
</a>Also, try the links from the American Dialect Society
<a href="http://www.americandialect.org/" eudora="autourl">
www.americandialect.org</a><br><br>
Bill Labov has just published a beautiful <i>Atlas of American
English</i>, with CD. It is expensive, but see if your library will
buy it from Mouton
<a href="http://web.uni-marburg.de/linguistik//dgweb/atlas/" eudora="autourl">
http://web.uni-marburg.de/linguistik//dgweb/atlas/<br><br>
</a>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.
<a href="http://www.mla.org/" eudora="autourl">www.mla.org<br><br>
</a>Mary Erbaugh<br>
Center for Asian and Pacific Studies<br>
University of Oregon<br><br>
<a href="http://www.pearstories.org/" eudora="autourl">
www.pearstories.org</a> (provides speech and text narratives
from the 7 major Chinese dialects)<br><br>
<br>
At 07:00 AM 1/27/2006 -0500, Shelley Velleman wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hi,<br><br>
I'm wondering if there are any *free* on-line audio samples of US
<br>
dialects. The website "icsi.berkeley.edu/real.stp" was
mentioned in <br>
an American Dialect Assn. talk I attended recently, but when I try
to <br>
access it I get "The requested URL /real.stp was not found on
this <br>
server.".<br><br>
Thanks.<br><br>
Shelley Velleman<br>
UMass - Amherst<br><br>
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