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I am working on simulating what changing the English orthography (s.t. it would be (more) transparent) would do to the reading process. A natural question that arises is: If the spelling is tailored to the phonology of one particular dialect, what happens to a speaker of a different dialect, when confronted with that spelling? For that I need a resource, which could be one of the following:

  • A dictionary of words with phonetic transcriptions for at least two dialects of English
  • A corpus with phonetic transcriptions for each of at least two dialects
  • A corpus with transcriptions in one dialect and a dictionary of transcriptions in another
  • A corpus with transcriptions in one dialect and a set of rules (:|) for getting pronunciations in that dialect to those of another

Does anybody know of any such resources?

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  • What time period are you thinking about?
    – robert
    Commented Nov 4, 2014 at 16:32
  • For what I've done so far, I have used CELEX and the BNC, so contemporary would be optimal, but it doesn't really matter. The time periods of both dialects should be comparable though.
    – Christian Adam
    Commented Nov 4, 2014 at 17:10
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    Would the Freiburg English Dialect Corpus suit your needs?
    – robert
    Commented Nov 4, 2014 at 17:47
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    Wiktionary normally has a wide range of phonetic transcriptions, usually at least for British and American English.
    – curiousdannii ♦
    Commented Nov 5, 2014 at 1:37
  • Unfortunately, the Freiburg Corpus only has orthographic, but not phonetic transcriptions, so it doesn't help me. I guess it's clear why I would prefer a resource put together by linguists, but I guess I'll have to scrape the transcriptions from wiktionary after all. Thanks.
    – Christian Adam
    Commented Nov 11, 2014 at 19:33

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