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- Most recent update: 22-04-2009.
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This site contains 70 readings of the "North Wind
and the Sun" in an equal number of different languages. Most of these
materials were recorded by Elizabeth Uldall in the Phonetics Laboratory
of Edinburgh University in the 1950s and 1960s and they were intended
to serve as student illustrations of the languages in the 1949 edition
of the 'Principles of the International Phonetic Association'. I
accidentally uncovered these recordings while doing my PhD at Edinburgh
University and I have used them ever since in my own phonetics classes
to the benefit of my students. Since this collection is so intimately
associated with the rich tradition of phonetic research at Edinburgh
University, I have decided to name it the "Edinburgh IPA Archives".
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The website is conceived as a series of factsheets
about the different languages in the collection. For each language,
there is information about its distribution, its consonants and vowels.
In addition, there is a phonetic transcription of the passage to go
with the original audio recording. Furthermore, there is an
orthographic transcription of the text (to the extent that this is
available) and there are references to a few publications on the
phonetic characteristics of each language. I have also included the IPA
comments on the phonetics of each language taken from the 1949 edition
from the "Principles of the International Phonetic Association". At a
later stage, I hope to implement a basic search facility so that it
will become possible for students and interested speech scientists to
identify languages illustrating specific sounds or sound classes.
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This website is currently under construction and is updated regularly.
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I would like to thank the University of
Edinburgh's subject group of Linguistics and English Language within
the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences to grant the
permission to make these recordings available to a wider audience. Only
in a number of instances, it has been possible to identify the speaker
of the recordings and in these cases permission has been sought to
include their voices.
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