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E 45-1781 [Internet Resource]
Speech Accent Archive, by Steven H. Weinberger.
URL: http://accent.gmu.edu/
[Visited Sep'07] With the assistance of his students and many outside contributors, linguistics professor Weinberger (George Mason U.) has compiled an extensive collection of audio clips demonstrating speech accents from around the world. The data set, updated weekly, contains over 750 samples, all in QuickTime format. For each, both native and non-native English speakers were asked to read aloud the same four-sentence paragraph, a...