KU students contribute to IDEA

As part of their actor training in stage dialects this semester in Paul Meier’s Acting with an Accent class at the University of Kansas Department of Theatre, the following students each interviewed a real-life dialect or accent speaker, publishing the recordings and transcriptions on The International Dialects of English Archive.  Those students are: Maggie Boyles, Jordyn Cox, Troy Dargin, Katherine Dick, Helen Gent, Abby Hadel, Jordan LaForce, Lily Lancaster, Michael Miller, Jordan Partin, Kevin Siess, Elaina Smith, Thomas Tong, Tim Wilkinson, and Laurie Winkel.

To find the samples that each student contributed, simply type the student’s name in the Website’s search window at the top of the right column.