Dialectology Prepared by : Domantas Jasmontas Aistė Taraškutė
Dialectology is the scientific study of linguistic accent and dialect, a sub-field of sociolinguistics. It studies variations in language based primarily on geographic distribution and their associated features. More information can be found at.
A dialect is usually spoken by people who live in a certain region of a country. Those people speak their mother tongue in their own individual way. An accent usually describes the way people pronounce words of a language that is different from their mother tongue. Here is an article how accent differs from dialect cent-and-dialect/
International Dialects of English Archive – was created in 1997 as a free, online archive of primary source dialect and accent recordings. Here you can find recordings on how people talk in their native languages. ex.htm
In this website you can find information presented in charts, maps on how the English dialect and words changed from Anglo-Saxons times to this day. er/dialectsofenglish.html
The speech accent archive - This website presents a large set of speech and transcription samples from a variety of language backgrounds.
This website collects data on how one word is pronounced in different accents and compares them in an easy to use website interface ons.com/
This video shows how one person can master various english accents. The person speaking in this video is Amy Frances Walker is an American actress, singer, and co-founder of the Connected Film project. pfSp2t6k
All in all this presentation meant to show that today there are a lot data collected on dialects and accents and using IT helps to learn these even without any courses or teachers
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