Dear all,
As part of the ERASMUS+ project “Counteracting accent dIscrimination
pRactiCes in Education” (https://www.circe-project.eu/), we will
investigate attitudes to varieties of English and varieties of several
other European languages through Verbal Guise Tests. At the end of the
project, all materials for the Verbal Guise Tests will be made available
to the research community and we invite other researchers to use them.
We are currently looking for speakers of several varieties of English
who are willing to record themselves reading a very short (one
paragraph) reading passage. The speakers should be between 18 and 25
years of age (approximately) and should speak an 'educated and/or
standard' form of this variety of English without obvious regional
markers (we are aware that these concepts as well as the variety labels
are controversial, but had to settle on a working definition).
We are looking for speakers of:
- Standard Southern British English
- Standard American English
- African American Vernacular English
- Multicultural London English
- Indian English
- Nigerian English
Speakers will be compensated with 20 Euros. We would be very grateful if
you could forward this information to your students or anyone else who
you think might be willing to help us and donate a recording of their
voice for this research. Anyone interested should please contact us at
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Best wishes
Robert
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Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs (JP) | Department of English Language and
Literature/Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik | University of
Hamburg | Von-Melle-Park 6 | 20146 Hamburg, Germany |
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