19.283, FYI: Modified: English Speech Samples... KanTalk.com

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Subject: 19.283, FYI: Modified: English Speech Samples... KanTalk.com

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Date: 23-Jan-2008
From: David Liu < admin at kantalk.com >
Subject: Modified: English Speech Samples... KanTalk.com

 

	
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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:07:16
From: David Liu [admin at kantalk.com]
Subject: Modified: English Speech Samples... KanTalk.com
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Please note: The original message found at
http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-229.html, this modified issue
contains a correction made by the submitter:

"KanTalk.com is an online learning community that enables non-native English
speakers to improve their spoken skills. Over the past year, over 1,080
people from various language backgrounds have recorded over 1,480 speech
samples at the site, mostly reading the same paragraph Please Call
Stella (the transcript is provided at the courtesy of Prof. Steven
Weinberger, the administrator of the Speech Accent Archive at George
Mason University)". 

Prof. Steven Weinberger thanks David Liu for this acknowledgment and invite
you to visit the Speech Accent Analysis website at http://accent.gmu.edu

===========original message==============

Message 1: English Speech Samples for Accent Analysis
Date: 18-Jan-2008
From: David Liu <admin at kantalk.com>
Subject: English Speech Samples for Accent Analysis
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KanTalk.com is an online learning community that enables non-native English
speakers to improve their spoken skills. Over the past year, over 1,080
people from various language backgrounds have recorded over 1,480 speech
samples at the site, mostly reading the same paragraph.

These digital speech collections are open to anyone in the linguistic
community who does research and analysis on English accent and language
acquisition. The demographic information, such as age, gender, native
language, and etc., are available for the most of the recordings. The
collections can be accessed online free of charge at
http://www.kantalk.com/Recording/.

For any further information or questions, please contact KanTalk.com by
email at admin at kantalk.com.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discipline of Linguistics;
General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Phonetics; Phonology;
Text/Corpus Linguistics 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discipline of Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics





 





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