Monday, February 07, 2005
speech accent archive
The speech accent archive "examines the accented speech of speakers from many different language backgrounds reading the same sample paragraph."
Site currently has 404 speech samples including dutch, catalan, gujarati, kazakh speakers (and more!).
Gujarati speakers hail from Ahmedabad and Bombay with a third born in Ireland.
For each speaker the site provides information about place of birth, native language, other second languages, age, sex, age of English onset, type of English learning method, length of residence.
Fascinating.
posted by Sal Towse at 3:31 PM|
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Site currently has 404 speech samples including dutch, catalan, gujarati, kazakh speakers (and more!).
Gujarati speakers hail from Ahmedabad and Bombay with a third born in Ireland.
For each speaker the site provides information about place of birth, native language, other second languages, age, sex, age of English onset, type of English learning method, length of residence.
Fascinating.
posted by Sal Towse at 3:31 PM|
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: views from the Hill
Bertold Brecht:
Everything changes. You can make
A fresh start with your final breath.
But what has happened has happened. And the water
You once poured into the wine cannot be
Drained off again.
Everything changes. You can make
A fresh start with your final breath.
But what has happened has happened. And the water
You once poured into the wine cannot be
Drained off again.
