Fwd: Crosspost from LL: Resource for Teaching Accents and Dialects

[Laurence Horn]

Cross-posted from Linguist List...

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>LINGUIST List: Vol-18-1151. Mon Apr 16 2007. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.
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>Subject: 18.1151, FYI: Resource for Teaching Accents and Dialects
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>Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:22:49
>From: Richard Hudson < dick at ling.ucl.ac.uk >
>Subject: Resource for Teaching Accents and Dialects
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>Dear Linguist List,
>The British Library in London (in the person of a linguist, Jonnie
>Robinson, who is about to become their 'Curator of Sociolinguistics and
>Education') has just launched a wonderful website at:
>http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/index.html. This includes a
>clickable map of the whole UK (not just England) that takes you to
>annotated and transcribed audio files for the accents concerned and which
>even gives a choice of date for the recordings - 1950s or 1990s. It also
>allows school and university students to upload recordings of their own
>accent for the archives. Those of you in other countries may find it
>helpful in your own teaching, but of course it's of most immediate
>relevance inside the UK. I should be interested to hear of anything similar
>elsewhere.
>     Best wishes, Dick Hudson (dick at ling.ucl.ac.uk)
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