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Dialects of English


The Dialects of English series provides concise, accessible, authoritative and up-to-date documentation for varieties of English from all over the English-speaking world. Written by experts who have conducted first-hand research on these varieties, the volumes aim to become the most obvious starting point for both academic and interested non-academic readers who would like to know more about a particular dialect. The volumes follow a common structure, covering the background, phonetics and phonology, morphosyntax, lexis and history of one clearly defined variety of English (or of a number of closely related varieties), and conclude with an annotated bibliography and some sample texts.

This website hosts the audio files which accompany the volumes of the Dialects of English book series. The files are made available free of charge, but are copyrighted and may only be used for the purposes of teaching and research. They may not be copied, further distributed or sold in any form.

The Dialects of English series is published by Edinburgh University Press, and is edited by:
bullet Joan Beal (University of Sheffield)
bullet Karen Corrigan (Newcastle University), from 2010
bullet April McMahon (Aberystwyth University)

Editor from 2003-2010
bullet Patrick Honeybone (University of Edinburgh)

The series has an advisory board:
bullet Laurie Bauer (Victoria University of Wellington)
bullet Jenny Cheshire (Queen Mary, University of London)
bullet Heinz Giegerich (University of Edinburgh)
bullet Peter L. Patrick (University of Essex)
bullet Peter Trudgill (Fribourg, UEA, La Trobe and Agder University College)
bullet Walt Wolfram (North Carolina State University)
Volumes already published in the series:
bullet Northern and Insular Scots by Robert McColl Millar
[click here for this volume's webpage with audio files]
bullet Singapore English by David Deterding
[click here for this volume's webpage with audio files]
bullet New Zealand English by Jennifer Hay, Margaret Maclagan & Elizabeth Gordon
[click here for this volume's webpage with audio files]
bullet Indian English by Pingali Sailaja
[click here for this volume's webpage with audio files]
bullet Irish English 1: Northern Ireland by Karen P. Corrigan
[click here for this volume's webpage with audio files]
bullet Newfoundland and Labrador English by Sandra Clarke
[click here for this volume's webpage with audio files]
bullet Hong Kong English by Jane Setter, Cathy S. P. Wong & Brian H. S. Chan
[click here for this volume's page at EUP - no audio files submitted]
bullet The North East of England by Joan Beal, Lourdes Burbano Elizondo & Carmen Llamas
[click here for this volume's page at EUP - no audio files submitted]

Volumes under contract to appear soon:
bullet Smoky Mountain English by Bridget L. Anderson
bullet Irish English 2: The Republic of Ireland by Jeffrey L. Kallen

Also available from this website:
bullet Recordings from the British Academy funded research project Northern English and Scots, Phonology and Syntax
bullet Hawick (South-East Scotland)
bullet Westerhope, Newcastle-upon Tyne (North-East England)

To purchase volumes in the series, use the ordering facility on the Edinburgh University Press website, or visit any good (internet or real world) bookshop.

This website is listed at Intute.




The website is hosted by the Department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh.
Responsible for this website: Patrick Honeybone (patrick.honeybone@ed.ac.uk), with assistance from Will Barras.
Last updated: April 2012