Dr Geoff LindseyMany of the commonest words of English are pronounced in a special reduced way, by Brits, Americans & others. Even by famous, admired speakers. Even in careful, formal speech!
WEAK FORMS: Why natives and non-natives sound differentDr Geoff Lindsey2020-06-02 | Many of the commonest words of English are pronounced in a special reduced way, by Brits, Americans & others. Even by famous, admired speakers. Even in careful, formal speech!
Tom Hiddleston reading Byron's poem: youtube.com/watch?v=X1nVVlA2zUkVocal Fry 2: REPETITIVE INTONATION on YouTube!Dr Geoff Lindsey2024-09-30 | If you’re struggling, consider therapy with my paid partner. Click betterhelp.com/drgeoff for a discount on your first month of therapy. If you have questions about the brand relating to how the therapists are credentialled, their privacy policy, or therapist compensation, here is an overview written by the YouTube creators behind the channel Cinema Therapy that goes into these topics: reddit.com/r/cinema_therapy/comments/1dpriql/addressing_the_betterhelp_concerns_headon_deep -- My first video on Vocal Fry shied away from the aspect of it that drives ME nuts too! Namely the repetitiveness with which it's used by many YouTubers. But maybe I should be careful about accusing OTHERS of repetitive speech patterns!
0:00 Introduction & confession 3:47 Vocal fry and intonation 7:37 Misophonia 8:53 Repetitive TV news intonation 9:29 Intonation 101 11:32 Dramatic pauses 12:11 Prenuclear downshift 14:34 Postnuclear downshift (vocal fry) 15:10 Nuclear downshift: Thatcher & voiceover man 16:51 The meaning of downshift 18:45 My allergy to radio intonation 20:22 Repetitive rises 21:31 Repetitive fall-risesWhy for some its not easy for some to pronounce KAMALA!Dr Geoff Lindsey2024-08-05 | Why Kamala Harris's pronunciation of her own name isn't so straightforward for Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart of the podcast 'The Rest is Politics'Do sperm whales have a phonetic alphabet?Dr Geoff Lindsey2024-07-31 | Unlock deeper insights and sharpen your critical thinking with Ground News. Subscribe through my link https://ground.news/drgeofflindsey for 40% off unlimited access this month with the Vantage Plan.
0:00 Introduction 0:40 Sperm whales 3:20 Ground News 4:26 Codas 7:32 Tempo 9:37 Rubato 13:03 Ornamentation 14:20 A sperm whale phonetic alphabet? 15:01 Information and meaning 15:52 Duality patterning in human language 17:35 Music
Thanks also to Joy Reidenberg, Moira Yip, and Tom MustillHollywoods Fake Mid-Atlantic Myth DEBUNKED!Dr Geoff Lindsey2024-06-30 | 80,000 Hours is a nonprofit offering free research-based help on careers that make a difference. Get their in-depth guide at 80000hours.org/drgeofflindsey.
Want to know why actors in Golden Age Hollywood movies sound different from people today? A legend has grown up that it was all because an Australian and a Canadian invented a fake accent that studios forced their stars to use. Here I'll try to show why that's a load of you know what, and get closer to the fascinating reality.
(Just to be clear: Wikipedia, which I support, is an invaluable resource on languages and linguistics, but this article cited a lot of sources by non-linguists.)
0:00 Introduction 3:21 Hollywood's beginnings 4:20 William Tilly 5:16 Problems with the 'fake' story 5:48 Rhoticity 6:58 Northeastern Elite 7:55 On stage and in public speaking 8:55 Edith Skinner 9:33 Katharine Hepburn 12:31 Intermission 14:33 Aspirational Hollywood 16:00 Cary Grant & Brits 16:44 Various other accents 20:16 Nasal nonsense 21:03 Kenyon & Knott's dictionary 22:18 Towards GenAm 23:50 The monster accent 24:17 Magnificence
So often linguists seem to be defending language errors simply because they're all 'woke'. In this video we look at prescriptivism and descriptivism, standards, language 'rules', arbitrariness and the way emotions can control our thinking about language. 0:00 Quiz and introduction 1:50 Broad perspective & Ground News 3:30 Ferdinand de Saussure & arbitrariness 4:51 Standardness 6:13 Prescriptive & descriptive 6:44 Unconscious complexity 8:50 The value of standards 9:40 Language is rule-governed 11:10 Precedents 12:11 Covert and driving 13:16 Mistaken reanalysis 14:20 Emotion 16:17 Evidence against them 18:04 The power of association 22:56 Lingerie
Butterfly effect pendulums by Wrzlprmft en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Double_pendulum_simultaneous_realisations.ogv Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.The most important CONSONANT in EnglishDr Geoff Lindsey2024-04-15 | Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code DRGEOFF for an extra 3 months free at https://surfshark.deals/drgeoff
Secrets of what I consider the most important consonant in English, the various ways it's made, and how it differs from other language.
0:00 Introduction 1:40 Important meanings 3:05 Important endings 4:32 Loudness differences 5:00 Surfshark 6:12 UCL's anechoic chamber 7:24 Spectrograms 9:16 Awkward combinations 9:48 months 11:12 Assimilation: howzat 11:52 TH-fronting 13:07 English and Spanish 14:05 English and Japanese 15:57 Articulation: reality check 18:39 The alternative: lips!
Thanks to: Gordon Mills of Psychology & Language Sciences, UCL Hernán Ruiz for help with Spanish Prof. Masaki Taniguchi for help with Japanese
Practically the moment the familiar vowel symbols for British English were published, they plummeted drastically out of fashion. This video explains how and why.
0:00 Introduction 1:04 MyHeritage 2:45 A. C. Gimson's book 5:33 The 1960's 10:30 Advanced RP 14:02 Beautiful working class? 16:18 Satirizing RP 17:35 Stigmatization of poshness 18:08 Relaxing the front vowels 20:00 What *didn't* change 21:46 The fate of the term 'RP'
People talk about 'intrusive r', but what does 'intrusive' actually mean? The video includes practical advice for actors from England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand!
0:00 Introduction & rhoticity 1:37 Examples of unwritten r from around the world 4:31 Baffling people & the YouTube captioner 5:22 The Opera browser 6:52 Why I hate the term 'intrusive r' 9:14 Why non-rhotic speakers can't spell 9:57 Linking R in detail 11:46 Genuinely intrusive R #1 12:04 Intrusive R in foreign languages 13:43 Intrusive R by performers doing accents 15:37 The 3 danger vowels for actors 17:50 Genuinely intrusive R #2 18:46 The mistaken rule & hypercorrection 20:46 How non-rhotic speakers interpret letter 'r' 22:34 Even great actors get it wrong...
My blog with lots of 'intrusive r' audio clips: englishspeechservices.com/blog/linking-rAn American T-dropping conspiracy?!Dr Geoff Lindsey2023-12-20 | Stay informed on breaking news and become a smarter news consumer by subscribing through my link https://ground.news/drgeofflindsey to take advantage of their Holiday Sale. Get 40% off the Vantage Plan for unlimited access to important features such as the Blindspot Feed. Sale ends December 31st.
T-glottaling (aka 'T dropping') has been spreading in American speech via a conspiracy of two different strategies.
0:00 Introduction 1:02 T flapping (tapping) 2:09 T glottaling 6:03 Conspiracy in linguistics 7:15 Ground News 8:55 Unpacking syllabic N 12:41 Hard attack 17:39 Summing up 18:35 Explaining the conspiracy 20:43 Covert prestige 22:32 Help! 23:09 My wrong prediction
0:00 Introduction 3:07 italki 6:25 'ate' 6:52 'interest' 7:22 'homage' 7:48 'garage' 8:40 'koala' 9:59 'harass' 10:43 'processes' 11:46 'aeon' 12:33 'cure' 13:11 'mature' 14:03 'air' 15:04 'divisive' 15:43 'debris' 16:22 'version' 16:43 'to contrast' 17:12 'mischief' 17:49 'mischiev(i)ous' 19:37 'drawing' 20:29 'gotten' 22:06 'trip' 22:22 'drip' 23:47 'tr' and 'dr' in CUBE 24:01 traditional teaching materialsMastering English vowels /ɪ/ and /iː/ with Google Translate!Dr Geoff Lindsey2023-10-27 | People are amazed when I use Google Translate to explain the difference between the English vowels shown in dictionaries as /ɪ/ and /iː/ (aka 'short i and long e', or the KIT vowel and the FLEECE vowel). With a little help from French!
0:00 Intro: KIT and FLEECE 1:34 Standard phonetic symbols 3:35 Symbols don't always help 4:15 FLEECE ɪj and French ille 5:21 Google Translate 6:05 KIT ɪ and French é 7:22 Google Translate 9:02 Examples from real speech 10:26 Finding equivalences in other languages
If you want to speak British English clearly and confidently, I recommend this course from accent coach Luke Nicholson: info: improveyouraccent.co.uk/english-pronunciation-course sign up: course.improveyouraccent.co.uk/registerLENGTH and LINKING in British, American and Australian accents!Dr Geoff Lindsey2023-10-15 | Hear the fascinating rhythms that distinguish American, British and Australian accents – rhythms that are misrepresented by the major dictionaries, and that can trip up American actors when they aim at a 'British' accent!
Also, learn why do English and Australian speakers say 'law/r/and order' with linking R, and why so-called linking Y and linking W just don't exist.
0:00 Introduction and quiz 0:44 Analysing 'going' 3:30 The GenAus GOAT vowel 6:05 New developments 11:51 Comparison with 'intrusive' r 12:57 Interaction with hard attack 14:27 Explanation in 3D
If you want to speak British English clearly and confidently, I recommend this course from accent coach Luke Nicholson: info: improveyouraccent.co.uk/english-pronunciation-course sign up: course.improveyouraccent.co.uk/registerPhonetic adventures in PragueDr Geoff Lindsey2023-08-18 | It's rare for a language to have a 'fricative trill' sound in addition to its regular /r/, but Czech is one such language. Hear it on my trip to the once-every-4-years Phonetics Congress in stunning Prague.
20th International Congress of Phonetics Sciences, 7-11 Aug 2023 was hosted by the Institute of Phonetics, Charles University, Prague (Radek Skarntizl, Congress Chair)
Presentations mentioned: 'Timing of laughter in conversation: better late than never?' Tamara Rathcke (University of Konstanz), Eleni Kapogianni and Lucy Page 'Some measures of phonetic similarity for use in legal trade mark disputes' Sandra Ferrari Disner (USC) and Vincent J. van Heuven 'Game of phones: a socio-phonetic analysis of stylised media performance of Yorkshire English' Lucy Jackson (University of Glasgow) 'Dentofacial Disharmony: patients' sibilants differ from controls' more in source than filter properties' Madeleine Oakley (North Carolina State University), Auvi Tran, Ciana Paye, Emma Trudan, Timothy Turve 'Glottalization of voiceless stops in Multicultural London English' Chong Adam (Queen Mary University of London) and Garellek Marc 'The devil is in the detail: An interactional-phonetic study of G-word interjections and some methodological implications ' Marina Cantarutti (University of York) 'Beyond accent, attitudes, and native speakers: What might socially responsible second language speech research look like?' Pavel Trofimovich (Concordia University) 'What can speakers tell us about speech?' Jane Stuart-Smith (University of Glasgow)
An exploration of vocal fry: what it is, who does it, what it means–and why some people hate it!
0:00 Introduction: what is vocal fry? 2:17 Is vocal fry used at the end of sentences? 6:30 Teens and rich people who don't give a ****? 8:40 Vocal fry and glottal stops 10:56 Vocal fry from males 11:20 Vocal fry in other English accents 12:25 Vocal fry in RP 15:40 Vocal fry in other languages 17:02 Is vocal fry a pathology? 17:43 Vocal fry in singing 18:03 Are women better at vocal fry? 20:22 Vocal fry vs. breathy voice 22:27 What does vocal fry symbolize? 24:40 Vocal fry and Uptalk 25:23 Annoying creaks 26:08 Creaking and horror
Is it true that Hollywood likes its villains to be Brits or have British accents? And if so, why?
0:00 Introduction, Guardians of the Galaxy 1:04 British-accented villains 2:24 Colonial history 4:42 Brit-friendly Hollywood 5:07 Non-villainous accents 6:02 Received Pronunciation 9:56 Positive associations 11:04 Brits without a British accent 12:14 Brits as foreigners 12:59 My wrong prediction
Palpatine by William Tung, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Empeor_Palpatine._Star_Wars.jpgCAN and CANT: the importance of Weak FormsDr Geoff Lindsey2023-05-27 | Weak Forms play an ingenious role in many important contrasts of meaning, including can vs. can't
0:00 Introduction 1:33 Homographs: that & that 3:23 have & have 4:53 there & there 6:00 two & to, four & for 7:52 strong forms: citation forms etc. 9:30 off & on 10:52 strong negative, weak positive 13:34 can & can't
Thumbnail images from Wikimedia Commons: Sean Penn by Azin Zanjani, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license Willem Dafoe by Siebbi, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license Tom Scott by Tom Morris, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic licenseThe Vowel SpaceDr Geoff Lindsey2023-04-22 | To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit http://brilliant.org/DrGeoffLindsey/. The first 200 of you will get 20% off Brilliant’s annual premium subscription.
0:00 Vowels are not discrete 1:50 Vowels and colour 3:40 Resonating cavities and formants 5:40 Synthesizing vowels with Praat Vowel Editor 6:33 Vowels and basic colour terms 8:24 Early phoneticians and the tongue space 9:36 The tongue quadrilateral and MRI 9:54 Daniel Jones & Cardinal Vowels 11:00 The real vowel space explains 14:07 Inconsistent vowel demos 15:07 Consistent vowels with technology 17:05 A 3D vowel space
This video was sponsored by Brilliant.Hard Attack: How English is getting more choppyDr Geoff Lindsey2023-04-07 | Younger speakers are increasingly separating words by means of glottal stops!
0:00 Introduction 0:30 Laryngoscopy 1:02 Glottis and Glottal Stop 2:18 Hard Attack 3:28 German Glottisschlag 4:59 Smooth Old RP 6:16 Contemporary Hard Attack 8:16 'the' and 'to' 9:35 Presentational Speech & Elocution 10:50 Linking & Advice for Learners
Star Trek speed reading: youtube.com/watch?v=yveE_ctsJ7sThank you and upcoming PatreonDr Geoff Lindsey2023-02-19 | My Patreon is now live: patreon.com/drgeofflindsey Sincere thanks if you're able to support me. A thank you to everyone for helping the channel to surpass 100k subscribers, and an announcement of my soon-to-launch Patreon. My first patrons will get a free copy of the 2nd edition of my little eBook SMART Speech when it appears in the next week or two – sign up by midnight GMT on Sat 25 Feb (availability of free eBook may depend on your territory).My favourite British accent by an American actorDr Geoff Lindsey2023-02-05 | ...and it was in a film with no British characters! PLUS extra mystery accent!
0:00 Introduction 0:34 The media: who needs experts? 1:14 The media: people will believe anything 1:34 The Queen sounded Cockney? 2:41 Harry's British accent 5:28 The media's value judgements 8:50 The media's "explanations" 9:10 Harry ends sentences with "right?"
How word stresses line up with musical stress, allowing composers to hide words in their tunes!
0:00 Introduction 0:37 Music rhythm & word rhythm 3:34 Music & words have to line up 4:50 Theme songs 9:34 Theme songs in comedy 10:53 John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Dr Who 12:46 Titles sequences that fit the music 14:00 The longest hidden titles? 15:58 My guesses!
The composers who appear in the video are DENIS KING (Black Beauty) and BILL CONTI (Dynasty), also the son of EDWIN ASTLEY (Danger Man).
Thumbnail Tardis, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license. Taken from commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TARDIS-trans.pngWhy do people say AKS instead of ASK?Dr Geoff Lindsey2022-12-06 | EXPLANATION OF ENDING: ‘Asked’ is so often pronounced exactly like ‘assed’/‘arsed’ that the YouTube automatic captioner can't tell them apart: it sometimes writes ‘asked’ when the speaker intended ‘assed’ or ‘arsed’! I could have made this clearer 🤷🏼♂️ --- An exploration of the form 'aks' in various dialects, through history in and across the world.
0:00 Introduction 0:44 'Aks' in Old English 1:30 'Aks' in Middle English 1:57 'Aks' in the Bible 2:44 'Aks' in the Shetland Islands 3:44 'Aks' in Jamaica & MLE 5:28 'Aks' in the USA & AAVE 6:10 Stereotyping & prejudice 7:50 'Ask' pronounced as 'ass' & 'arse'!
God's Outlaw: the Story of William Tyndale youtube.com/watch?v=RKXbseB2Xi0Why did people mishear Kens Oh Barbie?!Dr Geoff Lindsey2022-11-30 | A phonetic explanation of how Ken seems to be dropping the F-bomb. Note: this is an update including the original low-quality audio from TikTok.
0:00 Intro 0:26 'B' and 'F' are pretty similar 2:18 'CK' or sound effect??Who pronounces foreign words like PASTA right? 🇺🇸 or 🇬🇧?Dr Geoff Lindsey2022-11-22 | A discussion of the different ways American and British English pronounce loanwords from other languages.
Thanks to @Teverell for Vigo, Kent, another Spanish placename in the UK. Various commenters pointed out Gibraltar. In my haste I grabbed a logo with Ukrainian Гаррі, not Russian Гарри. Ой. Yes, I did measure Australian 'pasta' too, with its fronter 'father' vowel, but I ran out time to include the data in this video. More at AusE in future!
00:00 Introduction 00:15 RP and SSB 01:00 the PRICE vowel 01:34 the DRESS vowel 01:49 the FACE vowel 01:58 the CHOICE vowel 02:27 the SQUARE vowel 02:48 the happY vowel 03:06 dark L and L vocalization 03:59 t glottaling 04:48 t voicing 05:27 t affrication 06:29 'mumbling' 08:18 Uptalk 08:34 TH fronting 09:00 ejective k'
0:00 RP (Received Pronunciation) and SSB (Standard Southern British) 0:49 The King's vowels 2:45 The King's consonants 4:09 Weakening and 'mumbling' 5:15 Emphasising and gesturing
Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 - Classical Whimsical by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Artist: http://incompetech.comSchwa /ə/ and STRUT /ʌ/ vowels in EVERY English accent (almost)Dr Geoff Lindsey2022-08-23 | How schwa /ə/ (aka commA) and /ʌ/ (aka STRUT) occur throughout the entire English-speaking world, using John Wells's famous "Accents of English" as our guide.
(Note: many Americans feel they have their unstressed /ɪ/ rather than /ə/ in some of the words shown from dictionaries in the video. But that still doesn't mean a distinct /ʌ/.)
Request a reasonably priced paperback edition of the Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation from the publisher, Taylor & Francis: amy.laurens at tandf.co.ukDo New Zealand and Northern England have the same vowels?!Dr Geoff Lindsey2022-06-30 | Although English Northerners and Kiwis sound very different, their short vowel systems are remarkably similar...BTS reaction: who pronounces English lyrics the best?Dr Geoff Lindsey2022-06-06 | I've been asked to comment on the pronunciation of English lyrics by the world famous Korean boy band. 방탄소년단의 영어 가사 발음에 대해 댓글을 달아달라는 요청을 받았습니다.
All rights belong to Bighit Entertainment. NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED. Suggested by HYBE Co., Ltd.A century of intrusive R in EnglishDr Geoff Lindsey2022-05-26 | As these clips show, so-called intrusive R has been a feature of standard speech in England (and presumably Wales, Australia and New Zealand) for at least a century. The term refers to a linking /r/ sound between the vowels of THOUGHT, PALM and commA and a following vowel, IF there's no corresponding 'r' in the spelling.
pexels.com/photo/close-up-of-cat-248280Speech is really SBEECH!Dr Geoff Lindsey2022-03-30 | Aspiration is important because UNaspirated /p t k/ can easily sound to English speakers like /b d g/. But there are some contexts in which English DISALLOWS aspiration!
audio clips forvo.com software audacityteam.org video clips pixabay.com music http://aaron-kenny.comWhy these English phonetic symbols are all WRONGDr Geoff Lindsey2021-10-22 | An explanation of the REAL, EVIDENCE BASED categories of English vowels, and why familiar symbols for Standard Southern British English are misleading.
English After RP englishspeechservices.com/english-after-rpWeak Forms in Pride & PrejudiceDr Geoff Lindsey2021-03-18 | Even in a classic BBC period drama, spoken English is FULL of Weak Forms! They include: to, and, of, for, from, but, am, are, were, could, a, the.
amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Blu-ray-Region-Free/dp/B001E454NYENGLISH CONTRACTIONSDr Geoff Lindsey2020-08-02 | English contractions: what THEY ARE and when THEY'RE used, including their history, their pronunciation and their usage in speech and writing. Lots of examples from well-known speakers (real and fictional), plus an interview with Lane Greene of the Economist magazine.
Spandau Ballet "True": youtube.com/watch?v=AR8D2yqgQ1U The story on the BBC: youtube.com/watch?v=FcxdjVF2ImAAn Introduction to the Vocal Organs – with MRI videoDr Geoff Lindsey2020-05-11 | The miraculous workings of your speech organs, using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). 0:00 Introduction 1:15 The Mouth 2:04 The Larynx 2:55 The Nose and Soft Palate 4:44 The Tongue – the animal in your mouth