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Audio Recording Conversation with 52 year old white female, Toronto, Ontario

Conversation with 52 year old white female, Toronto, Ontario

About this Item

Title

  • Conversation with 52 year old white female, Toronto, Ontario

Names

  • Unidentified (Speaker)
  • Chambers, J. K. (Collector)

Created / Published

  • 1979

Headings

  • -  Family--History
  • -  English language--Dialects--Ontario
  • -  Conversation
  • -  Accents and accentuation
  • -  Likes and dislikes
  • -  Women, White--Ontario--Toronto--Language
  • -  Americanisms
  • -  Neighborhoods--Ontario--Toronto
  • -  Interviewing
  • -  Language surveys--Ontario--Toronto
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Narratives
  • -  Reading
  • -  Personal narratives
  • -  Canada -- Ontario -- Toronto

Genre

  • Interviews
  • Narratives
  • Reading
  • Personal narratives

Notes

  • -  For rights information contact the collector’s institution: University of Toronto. Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • -  52 year old white female, middle class. Mother born in England; father born in "Niagara Fruit Belt".
  • -  Structured conversation around questions and activities designed to elicit personal information, lexical information, and opinions. Informants reads passage, word pairs, and list.

Medium

  • Audio tape; 10.5” reel, 7.5 ips; duration: 29:07

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1986/022: AFS 24,350 a01

Source Collection

  • Center for Applied Linguistics Collection (AFC 1986/022)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line
Center for Applied Linguistics collection (AFC 1986/022), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Cite This Item

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Chicago citation style:

Unidentified, and J. K Chambers. Conversation with 52 year old white female, Toronto, Ontario. 1979. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afccal000351/.

APA citation style:

Unidentified & Chambers, J. K. (1979) Conversation with 52 year old white female, Toronto, Ontario. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afccal000351/.

MLA citation style:

Unidentified, and J. K Chambers. Conversation with 52 year old white female, Toronto, Ontario. 1979. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afccal000351/>.