WORLD ENGLISH
A. Differences in pronunciation
IDEA (U Kansas)
alt.usage
Speech Accent Archive
Evaluating English Accents Worldwide
BBC Voices (UK)
BBC - Routes of English
Worldwide Accents of English
Dictionary of North American English (Mouton)
Nice list of resources
B. Differences in vocabulary
Australia 1 2 W
New Zealand 1 2 W
India W 2
Singapore 1 W
South Africa W
British / American differences 1 2 W
(COUNTRY CODES)
C. Corpora
ICAME (then "ICAME"): New Zealand, Australia, India
International Corpus of English (ICE)
D. Resources for project
Overviews/glossaries: World English
Overviews/glossaries: Wikipedia
Overviews/glossaries: FreeDictionary.com
See "Differences in vocabulary" links above
Informal texts (blogs): World-wide blogs
Informal texts (blogs): blogsearch.google.com
Formal texts (newspapers): 1 2
Static audio: See "Differences in Pronunciation" links above
Streaming audio: Listen to English from around the world
Streaming audio: VTuner (streaming audio from different countries)
E. Other
Ethnologue listing
Country codes
T-tests
Using the data collected by the class and the online calculator determine whether men or women have longer vowels.