Regional accents of English speakers

The regional accents of English speakers show great variation across the areas where English is spoken as a first language. This article provides an overview of the many identifiable variations in pronunciation, usually deriving from the phoneme inventory of the local dialect, of the local variety of Standard English between various populations of native English speakers.

External links

• The Speech Accent Archive, over 300 audio samples of people with various accents reading the same paragraph.
• International Dialects of English Archive
• English Accents and Dialects: searchable free-access archive of 681 speech samples, England only, wma format with linguistic commentary, British Library Collect Britain website.
• Britain's crumbling ruling class is losing the accent of authority an article on the connection of class and accent in the UK, its decline, and the spread of Estuary English
• The Telsur Project Homepage of the telephone survey of North American English accents
• The Atlas of North American English (demo version) A demo version of the soon-to-be-published Atlas. Includes sound files of Canadians.
• Pittsburgh Speech & Society A site for non-linguists, by Barbara Johnstone of Carnegie-Mellon University
• Linguistic Geography of Pennsylvania by Claudio Salvucci
• Guide to Regional English Pronunciation includes working versions of the Telsur Project regional maps
• Phillyspeak A newspaper article on Philadelphia speech
• J.C. Wells' English Accents course includes class handouts describing Cockney, Scottish, Australian, and Scouse, among other things.
• Evaluating English Accents Worldwide
• Do You Speak American? A series of web pages by PBS that attempts to discuess the differences between dialects in the United States