Thanks for the feedback Paul! I just gave these recordings a road test with my second
year sociolinguistic group. It was the first lecture so they hadn't met me and didn't
twig it was all the same person :)
My students are mostly from the Sheffield area, or further north, so MLE threw them a
bit, but still the cockney/RP split produced the sorts of evaluations for education,
trustworthiness etc. that you'd expect (I asked them to do ratings out of 10 -- very
run-of-the-mill MGT stuff).
I'd really love to improve these along the lines you suggest, but unfortunately I
don't think I'll have time. Still, but let this be a clarion call for others to make
their own! If anything, my failed search so far has demonstrated a real need for more
of these.
Dave
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Honorary Research Fellow, Arts & Humanities, Swansea University, UK
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On 27/01/2014 22:43, Paul Kerswill wrote:
> Pretty good effort Dave! The MLE is recognisable (that's an achievement!), but some
> details are wrong. GOOSE needs to be very front, START needs to be fully back. KIT is
> too raised. But you've got FLEECE, GOAT and FACE about right. MOUTH in MLE has a lot
> of variation, from the RP pronunciation you've got here, through an open central
> monophthong, to a fully back closing diphthong. LETTER tends to be low-back. STRUT is
> more than you've got it. And more glottal stops are needed. You've got a lack of
> linking/intrusive r, and the glottal onsets of syllable-initial vowels. Can you
> manage a slightly more staccato rhythm?
>
> What do others think?
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 27 January 2014 22:12, Dave Sayers <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
> As has now been kindly pointed out, in my addled tiredness I neglected to mention
> which accents I was plumping for in my recordings. (That is mentioned in the
> readme.txt file in the zip collection, but anyway...) It was RP, cockney, and an
> approximation of Multicultural London English -- see the readme.txt file for a
> mealy-mouthed excuse about the accuracy of the last one.
>
>
> Dave
>
> --
> Dr. Dave Sayers
> Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
> Honorary Research Fellow, Arts & Humanities, Swansea University, UK
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>
>
>
> On 27/01/2014 21:38, Dave Sayers wrote:
>
> Ok... nobody seems to have any matched guise recordings of British English
> dialects
> available. So I realised that, once again, I've gone and volunteered myself
> to make
> something. I spent the better part of today putting this together, and I'd
> like to
> thank Robert Lawson (Birmingham City University) for checking over some 'early
> drafts', as it were. Any remaining mistakes, as they say, are mine... all mine.
>
> I put all the audio files together in a zip file, in three different formats:
> MP3,
> OGG, and WAV. I wanted to upload the zip file to my academia.edu
> <http://academia.edu> page, but
> academia.edu <http://academia.edu> doesn't allow zip files, only Word
> documents and PDFs, so I resorted to
> a slightly ugly workaround: I just changed the '.zip' file extension to
> '.doc', which
> seemed to convince academia.edu <http://academia.edu> to let me upload it.
> So, when you download it, just
> change the '.doc' on the end back to '.zip' and then unzip it as normal.
>
> Without further ado then, here's my stab at a three-way matched guise test:
>
> https://swansea.academia.edu/__DaveSayers/Teaching-Documents
> <https://swansea.academia.edu/DaveSayers/Teaching-Documents>
>
> As the README.txt file in the zip says, feel free to use and distribute these
> with
> due credit. Hopefully they'll be of some use to folks.
>
> And if Rob and I were both wrong and my attempts were actually completely
> rubbish,
> then hopefully it'll at least spur someone to do a better job :)
>
> Dave
>
> --
> Dr. Dave Sayers
> Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
> Honorary Research Fellow, Arts & Humanities, Swansea University, UK
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>
>
>
>
> On 23/01/2014 11:22, Dave Sayers wrote:
>
> Hello assorted colleagues, peers, friends and strangers,
>
> I have a humble request. Does anyone have any matched guise recordings
> involving
> different British accents (ideally including RP)? I can track down a few
> American
> samples (and of course John Baugh's housing discrimination page is especially
> powerful: http://www.stanford.edu/~__jbaugh/baugh.fft
> <http://www.stanford.edu/~jbaugh/baugh.fft>), but I'm teaching in the UK, and
> I'm hoping to tap into students' intuitive understandings of accent
> inequality. Can
> anyone help?
>
> And, if you have samples which are cleared for public access, it would be
> really good
> if you could make them publicly accessible on e.g. Dropbox, Google Drive
> etc., then
> we can all share.
>
> To reduce email traffic, please send responses direct to me, then I can
> send a
> collated email to the group later.
>
> Many thanks,
> Dave
>
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