Survey of English Dialects : The Spoken Corpus

This CD-ROM set features 60 hours of never-before-published interviews recorded throughout England as part of the renowned Survey of English Dialects project.A unique repository of data on traditional English dialects in the mid-twentieth century, this valuable electronic collection combines these recordings with a fully searchable text transcript, allowing users to conduct highly specific searches for specific words, phrases and/or regions, or play back full interviews.With the powerful search engine, students and researchers can study pronunciations of specific words and phrases by conducting keyword and regional searches, and perform a variety of other useful tasks.Meecham, Pam is the author of 'Survey of English Dialects : The Spoken Corpus', published 1999 under ISBN 9780415219655 and ISBN 0415219655.