[Corpora-List] pronunciation lexica

[LAWSON, Ann]

Dear James,

Here is some information about US English pronunciation resources (over
165,000 headwords and over 255,000 wordforms) held by Oxford University
Press and available for research or commercial use. More information can be
found at www.oup.co.uk/digital_reference. I hope this information is useful
to you,
Ann Lawson

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-----Original Message-----
From: James Magnuson [mailto:magnuson at paradox.psych.columbia.edu]
Sent: 04 September 2002 15:22
To: corpora at hd.uib.no
Subject: [Corpora-List] pronunciation lexica



Does anyone know of any large sets of American English pronunciations
(preferably including inflected forms, etc. -- the more complete, the
better, of course) in electronic format and preferably in the public
domain?

I have come across two, but I cannot determine their origin. One is
labelled 'MIT' and has about 25,000 forms, and the other is labelled
'MOBY' and has about 35,000 forms. If anyone knows the origin of
these, I would also appreciate learning more about them.

Thanks,

jim

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James Magnuson
Department of Psychology
Columbia University
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