Linguistics, like all collections and studies of knowledge, is centered in and around the US. All Americans know that for a fact. The LearnTheAccent web site has both instructions and instructive examples, for Americans, of people speaking English with different accents. Here’s one — speaking English with an Italian accent. INSTRUCTIONS. EXAMPLE:
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Accent on/in roboticness
A recent study at the Delft University of Technology, in The Netherlands, determined that in some cases, some people would prefer that service robots are not talkative [see: The agreeableness of robotic vacuum cleaners]. If they were to be, however, what kind of accent should they have? Dr. Elizabeth Broadbent and colleagues at the University […]
Please call Stella
Hear the phrase “Please call Stella” spoken by natives of Brooklyn, New York, USA, Khabarovsk, Russia, Edinburgh, Scotland, and many other places. George Mason University’s Speech Accent Archive has recordings of: a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are […]