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Child acquisition of speech: Karen Landahl’s field recordings on open-reel tapes

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Primary Languages: 
English
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English
Locations: 
United States
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Karen Landahl and various collaborators tape infants at regular intervals as they grow in order to gauge their progress in acquiring language ability.
Collection Technical Notes: 
This collection consists of two versions of most of the interview sessions(recorded in the years 1977-89): 1) on 1/4" audio tape and 2) cassettes. The set on cassette was recorded from a different location in the room. Two sheafs of transcriptions remain in the DMA: One for the interviews with Bradner Gould (B/C D7000752Y) and Evelyn Ulrich. WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
Contributor: 
Landahl, Karen, et al.

Linguistic atlas of Oklahoma (Van Riper)

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English
Locations: 
United States
Oklahoma
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
William Van Riper interviews four male subjects from as many different counties in Oklahoma.
Collection Technical Notes: 
These tapes were made (from the original field recordings?) at the Magnetic Recording Laboratory of the Library of Congress c. 1984. All but the last tape are recorded on Tracks 1 & 2.After Raven I. McDavid made phonetic transcriptions of them in 1984, he donated the tapes to the LLA c. 1984. WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
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Dictionary of American Regional English: Interviews on aluminum discs (1930s); ; “Hanley discs”

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Collection Technical Notes: 
Tapes are dubs made in 1972 at the WHA (University of Wisconsin) Recording Service apparently from the original aluminum discs. On account of the degradation of tapes from sticky shed, digitization has been made unfeasible to complete. The WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
Contributor: 
Anonymous

Deaf adult speech (Diane Brentari)

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English
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English
Locations: 
United States
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Contributor: 
Brentari, Diane

Anthropology lectures (University of Chicago, 1979); Lectures commemorating the 50th anniversary of the University of Chicago Department of Anthropology

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United States
Chicago
Cook
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Two male professors and a female one give lectures on various topics in the commemorative series. (Why these three are preserved and not others is not known.)
Collection Technical Notes: 
Tapes are: one on a five-inch reel, one on a seven-inch reel and one on a cassette. The first one (from Eva Hunt) is almost certainly her original live recording; the second one may the original live recording made by the University's Office of Radio and Television; and the last one--also made by the Offiice--is probably a copy of the original recording. The WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
Contributor: 
Leakey, L.S.B.; Julian Pitt-Rivers; Fred Eggan; Karl Butzer; Norman A. McQuown; Richard A. Schweder; Harvey Sarles

Chicago dialects - Boogert ’89

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English
Locations: 
United States
Chicago
Cook
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Apert vowels - Karen Landahl research

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English
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Anonymous

MAPSS lectures; Social Science 300 lectures; Social Science 30000 lectures

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Languages: 
English
Locations: 
United States
Chicago
Cook
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Various lecturers speak on their areas of expertise as part of the MAPSS program.
Collection Technical Notes: 
These are the live recordings of the lectures made for students who could not attend the lectures. They were done on cassettes so that students could listen to them in the Language Laboratory. WAVE files are converted to MP3s.
Contributor: 
Unnamed

Dwight Bolinger: “Nondeclaratives from an intonational standpoint” (4/17/82)

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Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Bolinger delivered this lecture at the University of Chicago in connection with a meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society of that year.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Cassette is probably a copy of the live recording made for Karen Landahl, who donated it to the LLA c. 1982. WAVE file is now converted to an MP3.
Contributor: 
Bollinger, Dwight

Salikoko Mufwene on Ebonics (Mara Tap interview on WBEZ-FM, 1/22/97)

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Locations: 
United States
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
On her Public Radio show Mara Tap interviews Salikoko Mufwene on the subject of "Ebonics".
Collection Technical Notes: 
Cassette is the copy made by Barbara Need from the live broadcast and donated to the LLA. WAVE file is now converted to an MP3.
Contributor: 
Mufwene, Salikoko