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Audio Features


Since 2012, occasional Audio Features in American Speech have given readers the opportunity to listen directly to linguists and in some case to the speakers they study. Features include interviews with notable linguists, documentary-style treatments of dialectal or sociolinguistic variation, compilations of field recordings, and so on. Those published so far are listed below, starting with the most recent. The audio files (and in most cases accompanying transcripts) are available under the Supplements tab of the article’s page on https://read.dukeupress.edu.




Oral Histories as a Window to Sociolinguistic History and Language History: Exploring Earlier Ontario English with the Farm Work and Farm Life Since 1890 Oral History Collection


Derek Denis
American Speech (2016) 91 (4): 513–516



How Mitford M. Mathews Got Interested in Dialect Words


Mitford M. Mathews
American Speech (2014) 89 (3): 375–381



Audio Resources from the Dictionary of American Regional English


Joan Houston Hall
American Speech (2013) 88 (3): 365–366



An Interview with Joan Houston Hall, Chief Editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English


Mark Johnson
American Speech (2013) 88 (3): 364–365



“It’s a Language Variation, and It Has Its Own Structure”: K–12 Educators in Maryland and Virginia Talk about Language Variation in the Classroom


Christine Mallinson; Laura Rutter Strickling; Anne H. Charity Hudley
American Speech (2013) 88 (1): 100–101



Dialect Recordings from the Hanley Collection, 1931–1937


Thomas Purnell
American Speech (2012) 87 (4): 511–513



The Wisconsin English Project and WɪSCO


Thomas Purnell; Eric Raimy; Joseph Salmons
American Speech (2012) 87 (3): 369–370



New Microscopes, New Telescopes: A Conversation with Mark Liberman About the Uncertain Future of Linguistics


Benjamin Zimmer
American Speech (2012) 87 (1): 107–108

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