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| AML Senior Member United States Joined 6824 days ago 323 posts - 426 votes  2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, German, Spanish | Message 1 of 10 24 August 2006 at 2:45am | IP Logged | ||
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I haven't seen this posted anywhere on this site. It is a website created by an old friend of mine from college (University of Kansas). The purpose of the website was to record various accents of English from every part of the world. Many of the accents are native accents from the USA, England, Ireland, Australia, etc. The others are from people who learned English as a second language. The recordings are fairly long and are of great quality. Enjoy. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| andee Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7076 days ago 681 posts - 724 votes 3 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Korean, French | Message 2 of 10 24 August 2006 at 3:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Speech Accent Archive
This is a similar website from George Mason University - many natives speakers, plus people that learned English. Everyone reads a standard passage and in some cases a phonetic transcript is included. Good source for people that study comparative linguistics. Incidentally, I'm "english129" :) Edited by andee on 24 August 2006 at 3:46am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| breckes Triglot Groupie Belgium Joined 6798 days ago 84 posts - 89 votes Speaks: French*, English, Russian Studies: Italian, Dutch, Swedish | Message 3 of 10 24 August 2006 at 3:49am | IP Logged | ||
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In the speech accent archive, the same small English text is read by native and non-native speakers. For each speaker the phonetic transcription is given as well as a phonological generalization of his accent.
----sorry, too late---- There is also a collection of English Accents and Dialects from England. Edited by breckes on 24 August 2006 at 3:51am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6767 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 4 of 10 24 August 2006 at 5:08am | IP Logged | ||
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Collections of native English accents from local towns and regions would be invaluable. Practically every town and region in England, for example, has its own accent, reflecting the cultural and linguistic history of the area.
I fail to see the use of recording non-native (i.e. bad) accents. Every person will be different, depending on his proficiency in the language, his skills at learning new sounds, and the native accent he's trying to imitate. My accent in Japanese, for example, would say nothing useful about where I come from (unlike my native English accent). It would say more about my Japanese teacher and the accent of the region I've been studying the language in. Even then, my Japanese pronunciation is not the same as that of my friend, who studied from the same teachers at university and moved to the same city in Japan. Edited by Captain Haddock on 24 August 2006 at 5:10am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6908 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 10 24 August 2006 at 5:25am | IP Logged | ||
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BBC Voices:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/ Many recordings of voices from UK, from north to south, including Northern Ireland. Edited by jeff_lindqvist on 24 August 2006 at 4:10pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| andee Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7076 days ago 681 posts - 724 votes 3 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Korean, French | Message 6 of 10 24 August 2006 at 8:44am | IP Logged | ||
Not entirely true. It is very difficult for someone to totally lose all linguistic markers of their dominant language (Not to say it's impossible). I have studied countless hours of recordings of people that have learnt English and even people that have attained advanced fluency have something that denotes their nationality. Even from as little as 5-10 seconds of speech people in the field can relatively accurately determine where the speaker is from (or their native language). Most of my research was based on Asian varieties of English and through their English I can determine their country of origin - be it Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, etc. I haven't studied African Englishes in much detail as yet, so I can only distinguish between like North, South, East, and West. And I think most people can get European accents with some accuracy. Although, in regard to your Japanese accent. I have wondered if linguists from non-English speaking countries can determine a speakers nationality based on their accent. I like to think I'm pretty neutral in my accent in most of what I speak, but in reality I know I'll have left some of my English idiolect in there somewhere. Unfortunately, all of the comparative linguists I know are native English speakers. Edited by andee on 24 August 2006 at 8:48am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6767 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 7 of 10 24 August 2006 at 9:20am | IP Logged | ||
Perhaps, but if that's what you want to identify, just recording them in their native language is more useful. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| AML Senior Member United States Joined 6824 days ago 323 posts - 426 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, German, Spanish | Message 8 of 10 24 August 2006 at 2:11pm | IP Logged | ||
Don't forget that this website was made as a source of accents for actors. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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