[ADS-M] Fwd: Lewis and Clark / Linguist - Dialect expert & material

[Grant Barrett]

Dear American Dialect Society members: see below for a query from a
filmmaker. If you are able to directly help them, please respond to
them directly. Concrete information such as names, phone numbers,
URLs, and so forth, are recommended.

Best wishes,

Grant Barrett
American Dialect Society
Vice President of Communications and Technology
http://www.americandialect.org
grantbarrett at gmail.com


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Erin Collett <erincollett at me.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 9:02 AM
Subject: Lewis and Clark / Linguist - Dialect expert & material
To: administrator at americandialect.org


To Whom it may concern

I am working on the HBO miniseries Lewis and Clark.

Currently we looking for linguistic experts or prerecorded material on
the accents and dialects from the time of Lewis and Clark (1800's)

We are particularly interested in backcountry Kentucky accents/Dialect
& upcountry Virginian regional accents/dialogue.

Is there anyone you can recommend i speak to?

Also if we were to become members of ADS would we have access to audio
examples of Dialect? or further research resources?


Many thanks for your time and i appreciate your help.

Regards

Erin Collett
Director assistant
Lewis and Clark, HBO
(+1) 732 491 3499