| JOVA Juice: Compare accents online |
 What a great concept, the Speech Accent Archive is a resource for anyone that would like to listen to the different English accents from around the world. They have the South African accent down pat, obviously as the guy reading it is from SA. The concept is simple, there are over 900 different people with specific cultural accents reading the same paragraph : "Everyone who speaks a language, speaks it with an accent. A particular accent essentially reflects a person's linguistic background. When people listen to someone speak with a different accent from their own, they notice the difference, and they may even make certain biased social judgments about the speaker.The speech accent archive is established to uniformly exhibit a large set of speech accents from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English all read the same English paragraph and are carefully recorded.1 The archive is constructed as a teaching tool and as a research tool. It is meant to be used by linguists as well as other people who simply wish to listen to and compare the accents of different English speakers."              |
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| Last Updated ( Monday, 06 October 2008 ) |
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