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American folk music

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Subject Languages: 
English
Languages: 
English
Locations: 
United States
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Excerpts from several Folkways, Elektra and Vanguard phonograph records of American folk songs sung by various groups and soloists: New Lost City Ramblers, the Weavers, Jean Ritchie, Joan Baez and so on.
Collection Technical Notes: 
(Gift of the Kostas Kazazis estate to the LLA on January 28, 2003)
Contributor: 
New Lost City Ramblers et al.

Patient interviews - Karen Landahl

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Subject Languages: 
English
Primary Languages: 
English
Languages: 
English
Locations: 
United States
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Collection Technical Notes: 
Tapes are the original interview tapes.Note: More tapes may be added to this collection, but for now the existing WAVE files are available as MP3s.
Contributor: 
Landahl, Karen, researcher
Anonymous interviewee

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.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Contributor: 

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)
Collection Technical Notes: 
Contributor: 

Two dialects of American English (McQuown, McDavid)

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Subject Languages: 
English
Primary Languages: 
English
Languages: 
English
Locations: 
United States
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
First, Norman A. McQuown, a native of downstate Illinois, reads an illustrative text (from Jack London?). Then, Raven I. McDavid, a native of the North Carolina piedmont, reads another text: “Grip the Rat”.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Master is a special dub from two separate recordings: B/C A7003711T and B/C A7005114S; JJT, rec. eng., 4/12/77. The WAVE file is converted to an MP3.
Contributor: 
McQuown, Norman A.; and Raven I. McDavid

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.