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Conditions Governing Access

Audio recordings must be digitized for research access. Researchers must contact the West Virginia & Regional History Center reference department at https://westvirginia.libanswers.com/wvrhc.

Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], "American Speech" Recordings, A&M 4586, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Hazen, Kirk, 2015 August 31.

Content Description

Three 78 rpm sound recordings on disc of "American Speech" created by Professor Cabell Greet and others for the Linguaphone Institute. Recordings include numbers 65, 74, and 75, which touch on Appalachian accents from Indiana County, Pennsylvania, and Leicester, North Carolina, as well as others outside of Appalachia. Additional material on the full set may be found at William Cabell Greet page of the Discography of Historical Recordings website.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• English language -- Dialects