Accent Expert Gives a Tour of North American Accents - (Part 3) | WIRED
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Publicado 2021-03-25
Host: Erik Singer
Director: Alice Roth
Producer: Alyssa Marino & Erik Singer
Director of Photography: Charlie Jordan
Production Manager: Morgan Winters
Editor: Justin Sloan
Post Production Manager: Nick Ascanio
Head of Programming for WIRED: Chris Conti
Linguists: Nicole Holliday, Megan Figueroa, Sunn m’Cheaux, & Kalina Newmark
Dialect demonstrations: Amani Dorn
Language Nest Revitalization Efforts in Hawaii footage courtesy of ʻŌiwiTV and ʻAha Pūnana Le
A huge special thanks to:
Pamela Vanderway
Eliza Simpson
James N. Stanford
Nacole Walker
Justin McBride
Zachary Cooper
Reg Charging
International Dialects of English Archive
The Language & Life Project
Talkin’ Tar Heel, How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina
Dr. Walt Wolfram
ʻŌiwiTV and ʻAha Pūnana Le
For more reading and resources check out:
The American Dialect Society:
www.americandialect.org/
Dictionary of American Regional English and Field Recordings:
search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AAmerLangs
Indigenous North American accents:
www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2017/03/06/how-rez-a…
www.babbel.com/en/magazine/native-american-accents
indigenousaccents.info.yorku.ca/resources/
African American Language:
oraal.uoregon.edu/
New York Latino English:
qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~mnewman/Site/NYLE.html
Appalachian English
artsandsciences.sc.edu/appalachianenglish/
North Carolina accent and dialect variation:
talkintarheel.com/
Learning the tools and skills needed to be good at teaching or doing accents:
ktspeechwork.org/
Language variation and education:
charityhudleymallinson.com/resources/secondaryengl…
Language discrimination and racism:
www.linguisticsociety.org/content/lsa-statement-ra…
Lots of accents:
www.dialectsarchive.com/
www.pinterest.com/dialectcoaches/_created/
dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/sohp
storycorps.org/
accent.gmu.edu/
visualaccentdialectarchive.com//
Harvard Dialect Survey
dialect.redlog.net/
Podcast Resources:
Lingthusiasm podcast
The Black Language podcast
Because Language podcast
The Vocal Fries podcast
00:00 - Intro
00:16 - Southern California
01:07 - Surfer Accent
01:30 - Chicano English
02:51 - Navajo English
03:23 - African American English in California
03:55 - Pacific Northwest
04:13 - San Francisco cot-caught merger
04:30 - Vancouver, Canada
04:44 - Matanuska-Susitna Valley
05:29 - Northwest Territories, Canada
06:16 - Toronto
07:27 - Newfoundland
08:44 - Northeastern New England
09:58 - Conclusion
10:57 - Resources
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Todos los comentarios (21)
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You say that this would have had to be 10 times longer in order to be thorough. I say go ahead and make that video.
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Erik: “These need to be 10x longer” Everyone watching: “Better get started, then.”
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Immensely entertaining. I am in awe of his ability to speak in all those accents. He needs to be a tv star.
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I was in small Newfoundland town about a decade ago, sitting in a cafe and listening to the locals chat. I couldn’t understand a thing and I really tried. The moment you would talk to them though they would change. But when they were just talking with each other it was like another language. Truly incredible!
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"this video would have to be about ten times longer..." All the comments YES, PLEASE
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“Hi, I’m Erik Singer-“ Me, 0:01 into the video: Fantastic, amazing, incredible. immediately likes video
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his newfie accent is pretty good, actually! one thing that's pretty particular to atlantic canadian accents is they're kind of "mumbled", for lack of a better word. we tend to keep our mouths somewhat closed and a lot of us talk VERY fast.
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crazy how he can maintain and shift the pronunciation so well without getting mixed up!! mad skills!!
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The way he can slip into accents at will is unnerving.
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This is Erik's world and we are just living in it...
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Born and raised in Oregon and there is definitely a “country” sounding Oregon and a Willamette Valley/Portland/Salem/Eugene accent. Some country Oregonians will say Warshington. They add the r sound. There is a Dutch dairy farmer and a German settlement in the Willamette valley and also a large Russian orthodox settlement here in the valley. People can sound completely different just between the small towns here.
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I loved this whole series, although I was disappointed at how quickly he glossed over the Northwestern states, including Northern California. Although it's subtler than differences in, say, the South, there is still so much accent variety in this area. It would be really cool to see a more in-depth video on it.
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His only problem with the Newfie accent is that you could actually still understand what he was saying, and he wasn’t speaking unbelievably fast
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Eric: "This whole region does the cot-caught merger." Me, A Bay Area Person: "Hey, wait a--" Eric: "Except riiight here." Me: "Oh, okay."
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The bit on Canadian raising just broke my brain, I do it but I'd never realized it was happening!
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I'm surprised that he missed California's Valley accent. I think that's affected a good portion of California's accent as a whole compared to the surfer accent.
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Um, I'm sorry but we're going to need at least 10 more parts to this series.
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"This video would have had to been ten times longer..." Don't threaten us with a good time!
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even in british columbia there are different accents. there’s the city accent, island accent, gulf island accent, okanagan, kootenay, interior, the PG accent, and that’s the tip of the iceberg. the diversity in vancouver is amazing and there are international accents specific to vancouver, as well as many indigenous accents, dialects, and terminologies throughout the province. it’s all so fascinating to me
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as an aussie whose always been fascinated by the vast range of american accents, my most favourite being the classic (and also kinda stereotypical) southern accent.... accidentally stumbling on this series back to back right now in early 2024 has been amazing. hearing the presenter seamlessly go between the accents is super cool, too. accents and linguistics are so interesting!
