Speech Accent - Wichita, Kansas

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Speech Accent - Wichita, Kansas
By The Speech Accent Archive
May 26, 2006, 11:48 PST

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According to the Speech Accent Archive,"everyone who speaks a language, speaks it with an accent. A particular accent essentially reflects a person's linguistic background. When people listen to someone speak with a different accent from their own, they notice the difference, and they may even make certain biased social judgments about the speaker.

"The speech accent archive is established to uniformly exhibit a large set of speech accents from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English all read the same English paragraph and are carefully recorded.1 The archive is constructed as a teaching tool and as a research tool. It is meant to be used by linguists as well as other people who simply wish to listen to and compare the accents of different english speakers."

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Speech Accent Sample - Wichita, Kansas

Biographical Data

birth place: wichita, kansas, usa (map)
native language: english (eng)
other language(s): spanish
age, sex: 21, male
age of english onset: 0
english learning method: naturalistic
english residence: usa
length of english residence: 21 years

english74 Elicitation Paragraph:

Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station.

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