http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/isis-voice-recording-canadian-1.3321540
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Paris attacks: RCMP examines whether voice on ISIS recording is Canadian
Security experts, 3 linguists say voice has Canadian inflections and characteristics
By Dave Seglins, CBC News Posted: Nov 18, 2015 10:06 AM ET"
"Const. Annie Delisle, a spokeswoman for the RCMP, confirmed to CBC News on Wednesday that the police force is aware of media reports about the apparently Canadian voice, "and are following up."
On Monday, CBC News asked three linquistics specialists to analyze the recording, and all concluded the voice, speech patterns and dialect are distinctly Canadian.
Security experts and the linguists say the voice on the audio recording has telltale inflections and characteristics.
"The fellow on it sounded to me like he was … Canadian, and probably specifically from Ontario," Erik Thomas, a linguistics professor at the University of North Carolina, told CBC News.
Thomas, a specialist in dialect variations, has analyzed the ISIS recording and says he is 80 per cent sure the speaker is Canadian.
"There's a number of things that point toward Canada. His 'o' sounded more like 'oww,' which is typical of Canada," said Thomas. And also the word 'out'... he said like a Canadian, not 'owt.'"
Thomas said the speaker also had a feature known as Canadian raising in the way he pronounced words such as "vice."
The speaker in the English statement praised Allah, and issued a warning to France and "all nations following its path … that they will continue to be at the top of the target list for the Islamic State" of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Agencies reviewing tapes
Amarnath Amarasingam, a Dalhousie University post-doctoral fellow who specializes in radicalization and terrorism, says the recording tweaked his ear as well.
Amarasingam, who has paid close attention to previous messages and their potential Canadian connections, says, to him, it sounds as if the man on the recording is speaking a neutral Canadian English without any distinct inflections or dialects characteristic of any particular ethnicity or region."
The recording..
https://ia601500.us.archive.org/6/items/EnglishFrance/EnglishFrance.mp3