Survey and Collection of American English Dialect Recordings
FAIN: RC-20500-83
Center for Applied Linguistics (Washington, DC 20007-2631)
Donna M. Christian (Project Director: June 1982 to October 1990)
To support a national survey of collections of tape-recorded speech samples of American English and to create a preservation and research collection to be housed at the Library of Congress. The survey and collection will serve linguists, sociolinguists, folklorists, and scholars of dialect.