{"id":601,"date":"2007-03-07T06:43:30","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T20:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=601"},"modified":"2007-03-07T06:43:30","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T20:43:30","slug":"speech-accent-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=601","title":{"rendered":"Speech accent archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We deal so much on the web with visual literacy and linguistic literacy, but as direct oral communication gets easier on the web so much can be lost in translation &#8211; from English to English due to regional variation in accent. At <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"George Mason University\" href=\"http:\/\/accent.gmu.edu\/index.php\">George Mason University<\/a> there is a great site for exploring an archive of accents from around the world.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Speech accent archive\" href=\"http:\/\/accent.gmu.edu\/index.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"speech accent archive\" id=\"image600\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/speechaccentarchive.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can browse by region or via the world map and there are sound samples as well as a descriptive linguistic transcription. Fascinating site! Check it out \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Languagehat\" href=\"http:\/\/www.languagehat.com\/\">languagehat<\/a> for the link \ud83d\ude42 and to <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Sharon Boggon's blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inaminuteago.com\/blog\">Sharon<\/a> for pointing it out to me<br \/>\nThanks to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We deal so much on the web with visual literacy and linguistic literacy, but as direct oral communication gets easier on the web so much can be lost in translation &#8211; from English to English due to regional variation in accent. At George Mason University there is a great site for exploring an archive of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-new-media","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}