Who We Are

 

This website and the accompanying cd‑rom are an output from the Sound Comparisons research project based in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh.  This project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (research grant 112229), and ran for two years from October 2005 to September 2007.  Specific funding to produce this website and cd‑rom was provided by an additional dissemination award.  For more details, see our project website at www.soundcomparisons.com. 

The work to produce this website and cd‑rom involved:

Paul Heggarty

•   Concept, programming and design of the website and cd‑rom. 

•   Collected recordings of most of the Germanic languages and dialects.

Warren Maguire

•   Collected recordings of almost all English accents. 

•   Produced the phonetic transcriptions of almost all modern languages, both English accents and Germanic dialects. 

April McMahon

•   Project initiator and leader.

other specialist contributors

•   Transcriptions of a few of the English accents were provided by various specialists in the phonetics of those accents.

•   Transcriptions of all historical varieties were provided by specialists in their phonetics of those accents.

•   Remco Knooihuizen provided specialist help and advice on collecting the Germanic recordings.

•   Dante Oliva Le๓n edited all the sound files for the web and cd‑rom playback.

volunteer speakers

•   Dozens of volunteer speakers generously gave of their time to allow us to record their pronunciations. 

 

 

To contact us, please email:

•   April McMahon

April.McMahon@ed.ac.uk

•   Warren Maguire

•   Paul Heggarty

 

 

Contributors and Speakers

To all of those who helped, our thanks go out: 

•   To our linguist colleagues who contributed with their specialist knowledge and transcriptions of varieties in our studies, and in some cases recordings of their own voices: 

Esther Asprey, Joan Beal, Judith Broadbent, David Crystal, Nik Gisborne, Raymond Hickey, Patrick Honeybone, Mari Jones, Mark Jones, B้n้dicte Keck, Meg Laing, Roger Lass, Robert McColl Miller, J้r๔me Lulling, Norman McLeod, Miriam Meyerhoff, Chris Montgomery, Louise Mycock, Amanda Patten, Heike Pichler, Julia Snell, Jennifer Smith, Jane Stuart-Smith, Eivind Torgersen, Peter Trudgill, Kevin Watson, Dom Watt, Keith Williamson.

•   And last, but certainly not least, to the many members of the English- and other Germanic-speaking public out there who were willing volunteers for our recordings!