21.2663, Qs: North American English Dialect Survey

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Subject: 21.2663, Qs: North American English Dialect Survey

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Date: 18-Jun-2010
From: Claire Bowern < claire.bowern at yale.edu >
Subject: North American English Dialect Survey
 

	
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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:35:08
From: Claire Bowern [claire.bowern at yale.edu]
Subject: North American English Dialect Survey

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Colleagues at the University of Auckland and I are conducting a survey 
on North American English and trialling the use of flash web recording 
for phonetic analysis. We are doing a short survey collecting examples 
of as many different types of American English as possible. We are 
aiming for a few thousand responses from all over the US. We're also 
aiming to be as representative as possible for age, gender, geography, 
ethnicity and class (as representative as we can be given we're using 
an internet-based survey system). 

If you would like to participate by recording a short wordlist, please visit 
http://pantheon.yale.edu/~clb3/NorthAmericanDialects for further 
information and instructions. The survey is open to anyone who grew
up speaking English and will take approximately five minutes to 
complete. If you could help us spread the word by forwarding this to 
friends, family, networks, students, etc, that would be great!

For any questions regarding this project, please contact Dr. Claire 
Bowern, Department of Linguistics, Yale University. Phone: 
203.432.2045, E-mail: claire.bowern at yale.edu. 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)




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