Resources on Dialectology and Accents
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Basic resources on American dialetology and varieties of
English Pages with Links to additional dialect
resources Audio archives – hear particular dialects |
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Basic
resources on American dialetology and varieties of English American Dialect Society –
homepage for the academic organization – includes the “word of the year” and a
good set of dialect links Language Varieties homepage – An
very good site from the University of New England (Australia), descriptions
of several different Creoles and non-standard dialects of English Bert
Vaux course on Dialects
of English at Harvard University Descriptive
English Grammar course English
dialectology – Resources from a course taught by See-Young Cho at Berlin
Technical University – focuses mainly on American and British varieties Varieties of English page from the
University of Arizona |
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Pages with Links to additional dialect resources References on American
dialects from FAST/US-8 from the Department of Translation Studies at the
University of Tampere US-8
references on dialectology and
sociolinguistics – includes numerous excellent links, including media
resources from the Department of Translation Studies at the University of
Tampere American
dialect pages by Chris Salvucci - links page has an extensive collection
of humor sites about regional varieties of English also has links related to English
dialects in other parts of the world English around the World –
links to sites about varieties of English |
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Audio archives
– hear particular dialects Speech accent archive – from George
Mason University, a wide range of audio samples of the same text in a wide
variety of native and L2 accents of English speakers American English speech
samples – links to a wide variety of audio samples from different dialects alt.usage.english
archive of English dialects Sounds of English
– audio archive intended for ESL students There are also audio and video samples at the North
Carolina Life and Language Project The Canadian Raising
homepage also has samples “Talk”
dialect map – from the University of Texas at Austin hear how people from different
areas say the word “talk” - and “bought” Speech samples from John
Baugh’s studies of language-based housing discrimination |
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Research
Projects and Linguistic Atlases The
Detroit Project – research at the University of Michigan North
Carolina Life and Language Project Hear audio clips of the endangered
dialect of Ocracoke
Island DARE – The Dictionary
of American Regional English – homepage of the dialectology research project Linguistic Atlas Projects – homepage on
the various projects to document regional varieties of American English Evaluating
English Accents – a project in New Zealand examining attitudes towards
standard varieties of American, Australian, New Zealand and British English
(or as they call it “English English”) Attitudes
towards non-standard language in the classroom – a study comparing German
and American students |
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Further pages
about particular varieties An American Primer
- An essay by Walt Whitman published in The Atlantic in 1904 praising the
emergence of American English Dictionary of
Americanisms “A glossary wof Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Particular
to the United States” by John Russell Bartlett, written in 1848 The
American-British/British-American
dictionary A
student page about the differences
between American and British dialects of English |