• Final Report to the National Endowment for the Humanities Within the humanities research community, a resource exists which has not been fully utilized. This resource is the extensive set of recordings of speech which have been made by investigators who use spoken language as data. Access to these recordings is typically limited to the collector and a few close associates. Considerable duplication of data collection effort results and opportunities for comparative studies are...

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  Survey Locations The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection captures speech samples from 33 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and two Canadian provinces; British Columbia and Ontario. To access recordings and transcriptions from a specific region, click on the portions of the map below highlighted in light colors.