IDEA Associate Editor Ben Corbett was recently interviewed by National Public Radio’s KAUF about his Arkansas Accent and Dialect Project, which seeks to record subjects from every county…
Thanks to IDEA Associate Editor Bryn Austin, we’ve just added our 15th subject from the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The subject, a 57-year-old Asian American, has lived near…
I’ve just heard from IDEA Associate Editor Rena Cook, who has a fascinating gig. She’s dialect-coaching a film with Romani (or Roma) characters, not to be confused with…
Please join me in congratulating Associate Editor Marco Sciascia, who has just passed his International Phonetic Association examination for the certificate of proficiency in the phonetics of English,…
Courtesy of IDEA Associate Editor Ben Corbett, we’ve just added our twentieth subject from the U.S. state of Arkansas. The subject, a 20-year-old white man, is just our…
Thanks to IDEA contributor Gunay Mammadova, we have our third subject from the Eurasian nation of Azerbaijan. The subject is an 18-year-old woman from Sumqayit, in the eastern…
Received Pronunciation (RP), sometimes referred to as Standard British English, is the subject of IDEA Founder and Director Paul Meier’s latest podcast. Paul discusses the history of RP…
Thanks to IDEA Associate Editor Ben Corbett, we have three new subjects from the U.S. state of Arkansas. All three are women who have spent most of their…
Please welcome our second subject from the Eurasian country of Azerbaijan. The 35-year-old woman has spent almost her entire life in Baku, in the eastern part of the…
Thanks to IDEA Associate Editor Bryn Austin, we now have a new subject from the U.S. state of Tennessee and a new subject from Sweden. Both are women…
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