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The subject lived on the Mississippi Gulf Coast for the first 22 years of her life, specifically in Harrison County in the town of Gulfport. She moved to California for four years, living in Southern California until she was 26 years old. She then lived in Illinois for a year before moving back to California. She lived there until she was She then lived in Texas for roughly twenty years and now has spent the last year in Fairfield, California.
She claims she is a city girl, so her Southern drawl is not quite as thick as those in the more northern parts of Mississippi. The text used in our recordings of scripted speech can be found by clicking here. Ummm, I can remember growing up in Mississippi. That made her mad, and so she would steak them out. Well, I have two sisters, and we talk on a, a weekly basis. And, um, my mother just passed away last year, so up until then, ah, I would go every year to visit my family.
So I do have contact with my Southern relatives all the time. No, actually he was a Navy brat, and he grew up in, in many different places. For instructional materials or coaching in the accents and dialects represented here, please go to Other Dialect Services. Please consider supporting this free research website by clicking here. Scholarly commentary and analysis in some cases. In a small number of cases, you will also find a narrow phonetic transcription of the sample see Phonetic Transcriptions for a complete list.
The recordings average four minutes in length and feature both the reading of one of two standard passages, and some unscripted speech. The two passages are Comma Gets a Cure currently our standard passage and The Rainbow Passage used in our earliest recordings.
