Fwd: Re: Audiotapes of English dialects

[Beverly Flanigan]

Another listserv I'm on is looking for audiotapes of English
dialects.  Hughes and Trudgill has been cited on Britain, plus the
following George Mason site, which I don't think is very good.  Can anyone
recommend a better collection for American dialects, besides the bits and
pieces we've all collected from "Talk of the Nation," etc.?  I'm not sure
we have one!
(Another nice British tape is "Urban Voices," by Foulkes and Docherty.)

Beverly Flanigan

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>From: "Stefka H. Marinova-Todd " <stefka at audiospeech.ubc.ca>
>Subject: Re: Audiotapes of English dialects
>To: Barbara Pearson <bpearson at comdis.umass.edu>
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>Dear Dr. Pearson,
>
>There is also a web-page (http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/) called Speech
>Accent Archive hosted at the George Mason University which contains a
>collection of audio-files of various foreign accents of English, including
>about 60 samples of English dialects from across the US, as well as
>Britain, Australia, New Zealand and other English speaking countries. In
>all the samples, the speakers are asked to read the same paragraph in
>English, which provides for a good comparison across accents/dialects.
>
>I hope this is of help.
>Best regards,
>Stefka Marinova-Todd
>
>Barbara Pearson wrote:
>>Dear Infochildes,
>>I've been asked by a non-linguist who is trying to organize
>>a program on language awareness for an audiotape of
>>different English dialects.  (She's in the US, but I guess
>>if there's one of British dialects, that might be useful,
>>too.)
>>She's already familiar with the video "American Tongues,"
>>which would have been my first response for her.
>>Any ideas?
>>Thanks,
>>Barbara
>>
>>*****************************************
>>Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph. D.
>>Project Manager, Research Assistant
>>Dept. of Communication Disorders
>>University of Massachusetts
>>Amherst MA 01003
>>413.545.5023
>>fax: 545.0803
>>bpearson at comdis.umass.edu
>>http://www.umass.edu/aae/
>>
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