Dialects Of New Jersey
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In a small number of cases, you will also find a narrow phonetic transcription of the sample (see Phonetic Transcriptions for a complete list).
The recordings average four minutes in length and feature both the reading of one of two standard passages, and some unscripted speech. The two passages, Comma Gets a Cure (currently our standard passage), and The Rainbow Passage (used in our earliest recordings), may be accessed from the menu bar to your right.
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please go to its official website
at www.state.nj.us
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Dialect Samples
To properly play a sound sample, you may first need to save it to your own computer. To display the various 'save' options, PC users should right-click on the desired sample below; Mac users should press the Control key while clicking. A high-speed connection to the Internet may allow you to play the file simply by clicking it once or twice.| Sound Sample | Basic Information | Text Files |
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| New Jersey One (SAMPLE WITHDRAWN FOR FURTHER PROCESSING JULY 23, 2007) | ||
| New Jersey Two | Subject is a Caucasian male, born 1956, born in Newark,and raised in Cranford | New Jersey Two Transcription |
| New Jersey Three | Subject is a college-educated Caucasian male, of Italian descent, born 1961, a life-long resident of Newark and neighboring Belleville | New Jersey Three |
| New Jersey Four | Subject is a white female, born 1987 and raised in Princeton | New Jersey Four |
| New Jersey Five | Subject is a white female, 63, born 1949, lived almost her entire life in New Jersey | New Jersey Five |