Dialectology
Prepared by :
Domantas Jasmontas
Aistė Taraškutė
Dialectology is the scientific study of linguistic
accent and dialect, a sub-field of sociolinguistics.
It studies variations in language based primarily on
geographic distribution and their associated
features. More information can be found at.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectology
• A dialect is usually spoken by people who live in a
certain region of a country. Those people speak
their mother tongue in their own individual way.
• An accent usually describes the way people
pronounce words of a language that is different
from their mother tongue.
• Here is an article how accent
differs from dialect
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/ac
cent-and-dialect/
International Dialects of English Archive – was
created in 1997 as a free, online archive of
primary source dialect and accent recordings.
Here you can find recordings on how people talk
in their native languages.
http://web.ku.edu/~idea/ind
ex.htm
In this website you can find information presented
in charts, maps on how the English dialect and
words changed from Anglo-Saxons times to this
day.
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgbo
er/dialectsofenglish.html
The speech accent archive - This website
presents a large set of speech and
transcription samples from a variety of
language backgrounds.
http://accent.gmu.edu/
This website collects data on how one word is
pronounced in different accents and compares
them in an easy to use website interface
http://www.soundcomparis
ons.com/
This video shows how one person can master
various english accents. The person speaking in
this video is Amy Frances Walker is
an American actress, singer, and co-founder of
the Connected Film project.
www.youtu.be/3Ug
pfSp2t6k
All in all this presentation meant to show
that today there are a lot data collected
on dialects and accents and using IT
helps to learn these even without any
courses or teachers
Thank you for your
attention