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The Implication of Tape Recording in the Field of Dialect Geography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Rex Wilson
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Since the close of the Second World War a number of efficient and relatively inexpensive light-weight electrical recording machines using cheap plastic tape have come onto the market. It is rather surprising that dialect geographers have not used these machines to a greater extent in the field, for limited field experience indicates that dialect investigators can expect to benefit greatly when the potentialities of these machines are properly exploited.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 2 , Issue R1 , March 1956 , pp. 17 - 22
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1956

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Notes

1 Seifert, Lester W. J., “Methods and Aims of a Survey of the German Spoken in Wisconsin”, Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy, XL, 201–210 Google Scholar.

2 Wilson, Rex, “Is Your Dialect Showing” University of Toronto Alumni Bulletin (April, 1951), 5.Google Scholar

3 Kurath, Hans and others. Handbook of the Linguistic Geography of New England (Providence, 1939), 149 Google Scholar. “A reduced set of worksheets is Kurath’s designation “Short worksheets” has come into common use since

4 Pike, K. L. Language in Relation to a United Theory of the Structure of Human Behavior, preliminary edition (Glendale, Ca) 1954 passlm.Google Scholar The machine does not concern itself with anything but the raw phonetic data. The worker must make the phonetic observations where they are pertinent

5 Kurath, op. cit., 52

6 Ibid., 148.

7 Ibid., 45. 48.