Audiotapes of English dialects

[Stefka H. Marinova-Todd]

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
>
>
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