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Where do you come from? (Henry Lee Smith on the CBC program)

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Subject Languages: 
English
Primary Languages: 
English
Languages: 
English
Locations: 
United States
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
On this CBC radio program, Prof. Smith recreates his old radio program, identifying the regional accents of the members of the studio audience (Folk music samples also serve as illustrations.)
Collection Technical Notes: 
Tape is the copy from the publisher, CBC Learning Systems (Cat. No. 208L). The WAVE file is converted to an MP3.
Contributor: 
Smith, Henry Lee, and (unnamed) others

El inglés hablado para los que hablan español

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Subject Languages: 
English
Primary Languages: 
Spanish
Languages: 
English
Spanish
Locations: 
United States
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Lessons 1-100
Collection Technical Notes: 
“Un curso Holt de lenguaje hablado preparado bajo los auspicios del American Council of Learned Societies.”--from the album cover;The album has a library call number printed on it: PE1129.S8 A3.
Contributor: 
Unnamed

Pronouncing English as a Second Language

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Subject Languages: 
English
Primary Languages: 
English
Languages: 
English
Locations: 
United States
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Introduction and Purpose; Why Are Accents So Difficult to Overcome?; How Speech Is Produced; Phonetic Symbols; Consonant Sounds; Vowel Sounds; Tapescript; etc.
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Records to accompany The pronunciation of American English for teachers of English as a Second Language

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Subject Languages: 
English
Primary Languages: 
English
Languages: 
English
Locations: 
United States
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
The speakers voice selected exercises from Wallace’s book.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Contributor: 
Wallace, Betty J.; Gerald Dykstra, and Ralph F. Robinett

Varieties of spoken English

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Subject Languages: 
English
Primary Languages: 
English
Languages: 
English
Locations: 
United States
Australia
Oceania
United Kingdom
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Units 1-14 (recordings of free conversation, some “seminars”,;a tour guide’s spiel about the Thames, etc.–mainly in British dialects but with American and Australian speech as well)
Collection Technical Notes: 
Contributor: 
Dickinson, Leslie; Ronald Mackin, et al.

A higher course of English study: 1

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Subject Languages: 
English
Primary Languages: 
English
Languages: 
English
Locations: 
United States
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Units 1-14 (recordings in “written style”, which parallel treatments of similar topics in the spoken dialects presented in the Varieties of spoken English course)
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Natural conversation; Railroad workers: excerpt

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Subject Languages: 
English
Primary Languages: 
English
Languages: 
English
Locations: 
United States
Big Horn (county)
Wyoming
Lovell
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
At the dinner table a family of railroad workers engage in a spontaneous conversation (recorded at Lovell, Wyoming, in July 1977).
Collection Technical Notes: 
Master was dubbed at the Language Lab in February 1978 from a portion of a cassette copy of the complete interview. The WAVE file is now converted to an MP3.
Contributor: 
“Deke”, “Jim”, “Peg”, et al.

Excerpts from five Gulf States interviews, compiled by Lee Pederson

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Subject Languages: 
English
Primary Languages: 
English
Languages: 
English
Locations: 
United States
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Unnamed female interviewer elicits responses to word-lists from five consultants (from Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas). Each consultant then speaks briefly extempore.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Tape was dubbed from the 1-mil copy on a five-inch reel prepared by L. Pederson and lent to the LLA by R.I. McDavid. Transcriptions prepared by Pederson and McDavid from this tape were also been supplied to the LLA (q.v.). Note: This tape is NOT the same as the tape titled "Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States specimens". The WAVE file is now converted to an MP3.
Contributor: 
Anonymous consultants

Dr. Otto Will does three therapeutic interviews (1952); Interview microanalysis

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Subject Languages: 
English
Primary Languages: 
English
Languages: 
English
Locations: 
United States
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
In this series of recordings psychiatrist Otto Will offers as examples three interviews he conducted in 1952 with an anonymous female patient. (N.A. McQuown transcribed the first third of the first interview; see his text,“Microtranscription of psychiatric interview materials” (1955).
Collection Technical Notes: 
Tapes are apparently dubs made in the Old Lab in 1955 from some unspecified originals at the behest of Norman McQuown. (His assistant, Ms. M.R.Z., examined and catalogued these tapes in November 1976.) WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
Contributor: 
Will, (Dr.) Otto, and anonymous consultant

Newbury House TOEFL preparation kit: preparing for the TOEFL

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Subject Languages: 
English
Primary Languages: 
English
Languages: 
English
Locations: 
United States
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Contents of textbook:;Chapter 1: A brief introduction to the TOEFL;Chapter 2: Some commonly asked questions about the TOEFL;Chapter 3: Statements; Chapter 4: Short dialogs;Chapter 5: Minitalks and extended conversations; Chapter 6: Structure;Chapter 7: Written Expression; Chapter 8: Vocabulary;Chapter 9: Reading Comprehension;Chapter 10: Practice Exercises for Section 2 of the TOEFL;Appendix A: TOEFL requirements by institution;Appendix B: Guidlines for scoring practice tests...
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