19.229, FYI: English Speech Samples for Accent Analysis

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Subject: 19.229, FYI: English Speech Samples for Accent Analysis

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Date: 18-Jan-2008
From: David Liu < david at kantalk.com >
Subject: English Speech Samples for Accent Analysis

 

	
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From: David Liu [david at kantalk.com]
Subject: English Speech Samples for Accent Analysis
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KanTalk.com is an online learning community that enables non-native English
speakers to improve their spoken skills. Over the past year, over 1,080
people from various language backgrounds have recorded over 1,480 speech
samples at the site, mostly reading the same paragraph. 

These digital speech collections are open to anyone in the linguistic
community who does research and analysis on English accent and language
acquisition. The demographic information, such as age, gender, native
language, and etc., are available for the most of the recordings. The
collections can be accessed online free of charge at
http://www.kantalk.com/Recording/. 

For any further information or questions, please contact KanTalk.com by
email at admin at kantalk.com. 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discipline of Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics





 





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