Intro
Aims
Background
Methods
Influence
Questionnaire
Accent Samples
- NZE Female
- NZE Male
- AusE Female
- AusE Male
- NAm Female
- NAm Male
- EE Female
- EE Male
Personnel
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Cross-cultural
Intonation
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Evaluating English Accents WorldWide: Sound Clips

For an audio sample of the eight voices used, please click on the one you wish to hear. The sounds are about 120K each and are in QuickTime format. The QuickTime program may be downloaded from http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

The text read by all voices is:
"Dear Mum and Dad: Hi! How are you? Well, here I am in the big city. Although the weather is nice at the moment, the forecast is for hail, but that should soon clear. I bought a new coat yesterday because they say it gets really cold. I have to stay at Aunty Deb's house for now, but I'm hoping to get a flat soon. The trip up was great, even though it took ten hours. Well, I must go. You know how rarely I write, but I will try to do better this year. Love Clare / Clark

For a phonological analysis of the accentual features used by the voices, see Bayard et al. 2001: 26-30.

Please note that these samples are intended for listening to only on the website for pedagogical purposes; they are not to be downloaded for distribution or any other purpose without prior permission of the Evaluating English Accents WorldWide project. To do so is a violation of the ethical principles under which research like this is carried out, and we ask that you respect this.

Female New Zealander (NZE)

Male New Zealander (NZE)

Female Australian (AusE)

Male Australian (AusE)

Female American (NAm)

Male American (NAm)

Female English (EE)

Male English (EE)

Created by: Owen Baxter, Modified: 13 Mar 2002, Made with Macintosh