<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Thanks to everyone who sent suggestions for on-line audio dialect samples. Based on your replies, here's what I found:</DIV><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><A href="http://accent.gmu.edu/">http://accent.gmu.edu/</A>:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Samples of speakers of many dialects and first languages, all reading the same English text, 69 words long.</SPAN></P><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><A href="http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/dare.html">http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/dare.html</A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>DARE excerpts: Arthur the Young Rat and spontaneous speech</SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><A href="http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/DARE/#">http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/DARE/#</A> -- small # of longer spontaneous speech samples from DARE</SPAN></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""></SPAN></P><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><A href="http://www.ic.arizona.edu/%7Elsp/index.html">http://www.ic.arizona.edu/%7Elsp/index.html</A> Some varieties have samples; not all<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><A href="http://www.otago.ac.nz/anthropology/Linguistic/Sounds/Sounds4.html">http://www.otago.ac.nz/anthropology/Linguistic/Sounds/Sounds4.html</A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>New Zealand, Australia, "England", "American"; all reading the same passage, 3-4 sentences long.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><A href="http://www.fonetiks.org/">http://www.fonetiks.org/</A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"American", various UK, other languages<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><A href="http://www.uga.edu/lsava/Topics/Language%20Variation/Language%20Variation.html">http://www.uga.edu/lsava/Topics/Language%20Variation/Language%20Variation.html</A>:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>videos of Ocracoke, Lumbee; discussion of Spanglish and verb tenses<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> </SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">Shelley Velleman</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">UMass - Amherst</DIV></BODY></HTML>