dialect samples on-line

[Lynn Santelmann]

Dear Shelley


My favorite site for this is the Speech Accent Archive from George 
Mason University. They have speakers reading from various dialect and 
language backgrounds reading the same passage (for many of the 
speakers they have the passage transcribed into IPA). There's a map 
you can click on to get speakers from various regions. (So "browse" 
and then click on atlas and you can get a map of North America and 
see what dialects they have. It's great for teaching.

http://accent.gmu.edu/

Best,

Lynn


>-----Original Message-----
>From: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org [mailto:info-childes at mail.talkbank.org]
>On Behalf Of Shelley Velleman
>Sent: Friday, 27 January 2006 11:00 PM
>To: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org
>Subject: dialect samples on-line
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm wondering if there are any *free* on-line audio samples of US
>dialects.  The website "icsi.berkeley.edu/real.stp" was mentioned in
>an American Dialect Assn. talk I attended recently, but when I try to
>access it I get "The requested URL /real.stp was not found on this
>server.".
>
>Thanks.
>
>Shelley Velleman
>UMass - Amherst

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