Dr Geoff Lindsey
CUBE Pronunciation Dictionary
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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-rises
In this video I explore new research proposing a 'phonetic alphabet' for sperm whale vocalizations!
Original article by Sharma et al: nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47221-8
Philip Meyer youtube.com/@p__meyer
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
Many thanks to Caine Delacy for permission to use clips cainedelacy.com instagram.com/cainedelacy
Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 License:
Terra Azul video youtube.com/@azoreswhalewatching
David Trescot video youtube.com/@dtrescot
Darewin video http://www.darewin.org
Sperm whale anatomy by Kurzon commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sperm_whale_head_anatomy_(skull_cutaway).svg
Thumbnail whale photo by Amila Tennakoon flickr.com/photos/lakpura
Beethoven's 5th youtube.com/watch?v=9SIYYKj0IVI
Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op. 27
MIT CSAIL https://www.csail.mit.edu/
Project CETI projectceti.org
http://www.thespermwhaleproject.org
Thanks also to Joy Reidenberg, Moira Yip, and Tom Mustill
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
John McWhorter and Jessica Drake interviewed: mobituaries.com/news/death-of-an-accent
John McWhorter on American non-rhoticity: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=19486
Dudley Knight's article on Tilly & co: ktspeechwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Standard-Speech-The-Ongoing-Debate.pdf
Hepburn interviews: youtube.com/watch?v=rqFzFyWnnhs and youtube.com/watch?v=wfT_XWTldlo
Drone footage of oil fields courtesy of Alexander X youtube.com/watch?v=eaDDtimvUUQ
Thank you to the Cinema Museum http://www.cinemamuseum.org.uk
Los Angeles crew: Stewart Hoke and Steven Angelo
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
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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
Animation of vocal tract by Speech Graphics youtube.com/watch?v=wYwk07QM4rc
British National Corpus http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk
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'
Piper pipebandsnc.com/pipe-band-listing/clan-lindsay-pipe-band
Queenslander Soldier Portraits youtu.be/P6InFfjGArs?si=UcqVUE2ZDpxI_bfi
Pillenwekker flickr.com/photos/nationaalarchief/3333356893
That Was The Week That Was youtu.be/4e4R2038tfU?si=islNxRByZq0vrif4
Interview with John Profumo youtu.be/rx-GndZHtd0?si=EzeqlmPok01BXwuF
Harold Wilson and Beatles youtu.be/Yd7XzwNS86A?si=IieEO5BW0G2JBuG-
Thank you to all my patrons for supporting the channel: patreon.com/drgeofflindsey
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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...
Check out these teachers and coaches:
Mr Spelling youtube.com/@MrSpelling1/videos
Jade Joddle - Speak Well jadejoddle.com
Joel Goldes the dialect coach thedialectcoach.com
Accent Help accenthelp.com
My blog with lots of 'intrusive r' audio clips: englishspeechservices.com/blog/linking-r
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
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Web: go.italki.com/drgeofflindsey
App: https://italki.app.link/drgeofflindsey
Adrian italki.com/en/teacher/4227375 youtube.com/@accentamazing
instagram.com/accentamazing
Alex italki.com/en/teacher/5550947 instagram.com/speech.improvement.with.alex
Nicky italki.com/en/teacher/5484077
Tom italki.com/en/teacher/5091369 youtube.com/@inglesrapidoconunaussie7941
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 materials
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
My previous videos on transcribing FLEECE as /ɪj/ include:
youtube.com/watch?v=gtnlGH055TA
youtube.com/watch?v=tPi2jtU7Tl4
MRI videos from Glasgow University:
seeingspeech.ac.uk/ipa-charts/?chart=4
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/register
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.
Special guest star Matt Parker youtube.com/@standupmaths
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/register
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
youtube.com/user/muchelleb
youtube.com/user/aussieenglish
youtube.com/channel/UC13M4ASYG2k6kNjA5zyR1QQ
youtube.com/c/ElliotRobertsVideos
tiktok.com/@maddy_macrae_
University of Glasgow Seeing Speech seeingspeech.arts.gla.ac.uk/ipa-charts
Praat speech analysis app https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/
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/register
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)
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/register
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
Stuff Mom Never Told You youtube.com/watch?v=w7BBNEwyOjw
Boston U: What Nasal Endoscopy Can Tell Us About Voice Health youtube.com/watch?v=wcZcMgzHpQI&t=3s
Mayo Clinic Minute: What happens when you vocal fry youtube.com/watch?v=FwUEu3McHg8
Praat speech analysis app https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/
Science Friday sciencefriday.com/segments/the-why-of-vocal-fry
BBC news 1939 youtube.com/watch?v=NqN_KbZSCKk
C. S. Lewis youtube.com/watch?v=m3jYLGcDUFE
Identifying Vocal Fry Using Deep Neural Networks researchgate.net/publication/359646703_DeepFry_Identifying_Vocal_Fry_Using_Deep_Neural_Networks
Vocal fry and perceived fluency researchgate.net/publication/360487285_Creaky_voice_and_utterance_fluency_measures_in_predicting_perceived_fluency_and_oral_proficiency_of_spontaneous_L2_Finnish
Chao, M., & Bursten, J. (2021). Girl Talk: Understanding Negative Reactions to Female Vocal Fry. Hypatia, 36(1), 42-59. doi:10.1017/hyp.2020.55
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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.jpg
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
THANKS to those who feel able to support my channel: patreon.com/DrGeoffLindsey
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
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Thumbnail images from Wikimedia Commons:
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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
For more detail, see my published article: Lindsey, G. (2017) 'Charting the vowel space', in G. Lindsey & A. Nevins (eds.) Sonic Signatures, John Benjamins, pp 134-144 jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027264855-lfab.14.c8
or see my blog article, which contains both clickable charts englishspeechservices.com/blog/the-vowel-space
Standalone clickable IPA chart: englishspeechservices.com/ipa-vowels
Praat: https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/
MRI vowel demos: seeingspeech.ac.uk/ipa-charts/?chart=4
Peter' Ladefoged's Vowels and Consonants: http://www.vowelsandconsonants3e.com
MRI clip by MART Production: pexels.com/video/a-sonographer-supervising-a-patient-mri-test-7088474
Articulography clip, University of Tartu Phonetics Lab: youtube.com/watch?v=gMyN4H7OJuc
Pharyngometer clip: youtube.com/watch?v=IzSGhLDJ-Ms
Cardinal Vowel charts: phon.ucl.ac.uk/courses/plin/p205/Cardinal%20vowels.pdf
This video was sponsored by Brilliant.
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
Thank you to all my patrons: patreon.com/drgeofflindsey
MRI video from SPAN, USC: https://sail.usc.edu/span/gallery.html
Dr. Sunil Verma laryngoscopy youtube.com/watch?v=OQ8OdfOJBZo
Dr. İsmail Koçak Comparing stroboscopy and high speed imaging youtu.be/Us4xljB-TxE
Beth Janicek larngoscopy youtube.com/watch?v=iYpDwhpILkQ
Auf Deutsch! Knacklaut youtu.be/2OfJYyEd1QM
British Pathé National Day of Prayer 1942 youtube.com/watch?v=NIU6tSyzvjg
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If you want to speak British English clearly and confidently, I recommend this course from accent coach Luke Nicholson:
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An exploration of two ways in which British grammar has become more like American English in the age of the internet and social media.
Thank you so much for supporting me on Patreon: patreon.com/drgeofflindsey
The second edition of my short book SMART Speech is now available in paperback and ebook formats: amazon.co.uk/SMART-Speech-practice-techniques-pronunciation/dp/1739337409
The hyper-concordance of the Victorian Literary Studies Archive: http://victorian-studies.net/concordance
Star Trek speed reading: youtube.com/watch?v=yveE_ctsJ7s
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).
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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?"
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
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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).
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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'!
More on Shaetlan:
iheardee.com
facebook.com/iheardee
Beowulf from this excellent article:
http://staefcraeft.blogspot.com/2009/10/beowulf-axes-questions.html
The Knight's Tale in Middle English by Ancient Literature Dude
youtube.com/watch?v=Xn4RDpNyBsE
The Miller's Tale in Middle English by the Philological Bell
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Up-Helly-Aa photos by Mike Pennington
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Jamaican New Testament
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Stormzy photo by Raph_PH
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Scots language map by SkateTier
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Peter Serafinowicz sketch
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God's Outlaw: the Story of William Tyndale
youtube.com/watch?v=RKXbseB2Xi0
0:00 Intro
0:26 'B' and 'F' are pretty similar
2:18 'CK' or sound effect??
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!
Vietnamese from forvo.com
Mahler bust, photo by Johann Jaritz, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
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Spanish America map by Nagihuin, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license
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Every time Spock said ‘fascinating’
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Fly telepod
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Rod Stewart Costume
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Native speakers! Please take my pronunciation survey englishspeechservices.com/how-do-you-pronounce-tr-dr-str THANK YOU!
A discussion of why English speakers in various countries pronounce 'sh' at the start of words like 'street' and 'strong'.
MRI videos from University of Glasgow:
seeingspeech.arts.gla.ac.uk/ipa-charts/?chart=1&datatype=2&speaker=1
Josh at English Hacks on 'tr' and 'dr':
youtube.com/watch?v=C0euGksWMBw
Keenyn Rhodes on 'storm chroopr':
youtube.com/watch?v=AGKNtHXi5Po
Picture credit:
Hank Green (thumbnail) Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hank_and_John_Green_(Vlogbrothers)_2017.jpg
Panther theme cover by Squid Physics
youtube.com/watch?v=CuA5zPQChMw
Panther animation by Green Screen PH-DXB
youtube.com/watch?v=AKyjiYsbqm0
thumbnail Patrick Stewart, photo by Gage Skidmore, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Patrick_Stewart_(48445250077).jpg
thumbnail Ian McKellen, photo by Gage Skidmore, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SDCC13_-_Ian_McKellen.jpg
thumbnail Panther
pixabay.com/illustrations/pink-panther-pink-panther-cartoon-2556604
dictionary
pixabay.com/videos/dictionary-wind-pages-words-book-21941
page
pexels.com/video/person-placing-blank-paper-on-table-6787189
flashing lights
pixabay.com/videos/flash-abstract-flashing-lights-4897
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'
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/register
Picture credits:
William in thumbnail, public domain, photo by Paul Townley:
flickr.com/photos/136359789@N02/36579121434
William, Navy, Open Government Licence v3.0
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Sumbarines_Crop.png
Young Charles:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
doormat available from:
zazzle.co.uk/dorrmat_liverpool_doormat-256327248002519903
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
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/register
Picture credits:
Thumbnail Charles:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prince_Charles_Ireland-4.jpg
Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
Empire flag:
Auckland War Memorial Museum
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag,_souvenir_%28AM_1999.163.6-4%29.jpg
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationa
Beatles black and white:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Fabs.JPG
Library of Congress note: No copyright found
Beatles colour:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Beatles_-_All_You_Need_Is_Love_%26_Baby,_You%27re_a_Rich_Man,_1967_(cropped).png
Public domain
Young Charles:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elizabeth,_Philip,_Charles_and_Anne.jpg
Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
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This video looks at the origin of the term 'Carolean', meaning 'pertaining to Charles', and the alternative term 'Caroline'.
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
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100303
Artist: http://incompetech.com
Accents of English by J. C. Wells, Cambridge 1982
cambridge.org/core/books/accents-of-english/1E9E89C38DFD0AB53B47EF96D8442594
English Accents & Dialects by Hughes, Trudgill & Watt, Routledge 2012
routledge.com/English-Accents-and-Dialects-An-Introduction-to-Social-and-Regional-Varieties/Hughes-Trudgill-Watt/p/book/9781444121384
(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/.)
Resources using a single /ə/ phoneme and no /ʌ/:
merriam-webster.com
amazon.com/Merriam-Websters-Collegiate-Dictionary-Merriam-Webster/dp/0877798095
lexico.com/en
amazon.com/Oxford-Dictionary-Pronunciation-Current-English/dp/0198631561
amazon.com/Routledge-Dictionary-Pronunciation-Current-English-ebook/dp/B06Y68Q854
amazon.com/American-English-Phonetics-Pronunciation-Practice/dp/1138588539
amazon.com/American-English-Phonetic-Transcription-Carley/dp/0367441713
I'll Be Back from Hamilton
youtube.com/watch?v=hLrSFd9OVh8&t=379s
Request a reasonably priced paperback edition of the Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation from the publisher, Taylor & Francis: amy.laurens at tandf.co.uk
Ed Sheeran photo by Harald Krichel
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ed_Sheeran-6886.jpg
V, Korean audio clip by glamstar77
forvo.com/word/v
All rights belong to Bighit Entertainment.
NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED.
Suggested by HYBE Co., Ltd.
00:00 Intro
01:57 2020s
02:18 2010s
02:38 2000s
03:02 1990s
03:23 1980s
03:43 1970s
04:07 1960s
04:28 1950s
04:50 1940s
05:17 1930s
05:43 1920s
Russian oil imports youtu.be/5PxU7cIWDKE
Vaccines Royal Institution youtu.be/3rM7wPtMqYs
Brexit statement youtu.be/TMESz5b15G4
David Bowie youtu.be/kszLwBaC4Sw
Nokia Gadget Show youtu.be/1kjk5GLgDdI
Diana youtu.be/5yGkABNGlH8
Vanilla Ice youtu.be/roI1NVWQqtI
John Hurt Ford ad youtu.be/Lw3xXDIOmt0
Hamlet 1980 amazon.com/BBC-Shakespeare-Hamlet-Derek-Jacobi/dp/B000KBA9DC
Grease Film 78 youtu.be/BjWvs4FsBfA
Hermione Gingold Liaisons youtu.be/YE52zPJsCLc
Bootleg Beatles youtu.be/0eoSmdd_0e8
Ribena ad 1962 youtu.be/hJn7Ztr-k6Y
Shah of Persia British Pathé youtu.be/jtvl7iD57Vw
Quatermass 2 BBC youtube.com/watch?v=O8iQ8YGN-Gw
The Paradine Case youtu.be/SRb2WsY3mx8
Supply route to China British Pathé youtu.be/JB2vBQhAukg
Jamaica Inn youtu.be/vU2GV-PBCI8
Lawrence funeral British Pathé youtu.be/nFUQV6j3FoE
Sir Alan Cobham youtu.be/Sahja5USVT4
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/register
youtu.be/5OULnCCvdk8
The starting point of our conversation was my book 'English After RP'
amazon.co.uk/English-After-RP-Standard-Pronunciation/dp/3030043568
How a Printing Press Works: Dr. James Poskett, University of Warwick
youtube.com/watch?v=amAJhRUbELc&t=32s
Movable type by Daniel Ullrich
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movable_type#/media/File:Long_S-I_Garamond_sort_001.png
Music by Brian Bolger
youtube.com/watch?v=KVVv8sg7L_4
archive.org/details/PrintingThroughTheAges
pexels.com/photo/close-up-of-cat-248280
How to DO aspiration:
youtube.com/watch?v=6PSdlctYBsw
youtube.com/watch?v=xe6MIo816jo
I'm no longer taking results from these quizzes, but you can do them for fun here:
englishspeechservices.com/discussed-or-disgust-uk
englishspeechservices.com/discussed-or-disgust-usa
Sblended milkshakes:
sblendedshakes.com
audio clips forvo.com
software audacityteam.org
video clips pixabay.com
music http://aaron-kenny.com
John Wells:
phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/p201-3-lecture-new.pdf
The /ɪː/ vowel by YouTubers:
youtube.com/watch?v=hNTgpeaEFk4&t=99s
youtu.be/H1OwQAGcEZo?t=157
CUBE dictionary:
youtu.be/_Tcrv8lgLbk
http://cube.elte.hu
http://www.cubedictionary.org
Women Know Your Limits sketch
youtu.be/aT6cB6vMWYU
English Phonetics & Pronunciation Practice by Carley, Mees & Collins
routledge.com/English-Phonetics-and-Pronunciation-Practice/Carley-Mees-Collins/p/book/9781138886346
English After RP
englishspeechservices.com/english-after-rp
See my video on Weak Forms: youtube.com/watch?v=EaXYas58_kc
The unedited scene is here:
youtube.com/watch?v=JF3ueHjUc3k&t=3m14s
netflix.com/title/70234687
amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Blu-ray-Region-Free/dp/B001E454NY
Picture credits:
Helen Mirren thumbnail, picture by Dick Thomas Johnson, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helen_Mirren_%22Woman_In_Gold%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_28th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_(22418153872)_(cropped).jpg
Cate Blanchett thumbnail, picture by Gage Skidmore, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cate_Blanchett_in_2017_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg
MRI videos from seeingspeech.ac.uk
Language maps from languagesgulper.com
BBC News Hausa: youtube.com/user/BBCHausa
Quechua/Runasimi: youtube.com/watch?v=6AjTi4q_kIo
Na'vi in "Avatar": youtube.com/watch?v=TdF1d5MM-B4
Daniel Radcliffe: youtube.com/watch?v=ubNmT8FzHLo
Margot Robbie: youtube.com/watch?v=rPbEOHPAJAM
Tom Scott: youtube.com/watch?v=2M-vxb_Bt3k
Dr Mike: youtube.com/watch?v=TWpjc1QZg84&t=337s
Korean Billy: youtube.com/watch?v=uc6UDmY4mV8
Fry's English Delight:
bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00xr7wp
Judi Dench in Westminster Abbey:
youtube.com/watch?v=Hw9fPoV8MK8
The Queen:
youtube.com/watch?v=2klmuggOElE
Tom Hiddleston reading Byron's poem:
youtube.com/watch?v=X1nVVlA2zUk
Tony Hadley messages Muhammad:
youtube.com/watch?v=KG98Uaoxhm4
Spandau Ballet "Gold":
youtube.com/watch?v=ntG50eXbBtc
Spandau Ballet "True":
youtube.com/watch?v=AR8D2yqgQ1U
The story on the BBC:
youtube.com/watch?v=FcxdjVF2ImA
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
MRI videos from SPAN, USC:
https://sail.usc.edu/span/gallery.html
Vocal cord stroboscopy:
youtube.com/watch?v=t13ftpM4rPw
The Badger Whisperer:
youtube.com/watch?v=U2_d-ameu3o
Badger vs. Human:
youtube.com/watch?v=XA8pxzawUGM
Miley Cyrus and her tongue:
youtube.com/watch?v=662ecFXvo24
Blog post: englishspeechservices.com/blog/compound-stress-with-superheroes
IGN's top 100:
ign.com/lists/comic-book-heroes
Rocky Raccoon cover:
youtube.com/watch?v=mGMkwbCv4_o
Rocketman:
youtube.com/watch?v=lul-Y8vSr0I
Harley Quinn:
youtube.com/watch?v=RuDE6de1hdQ
youtube.com/watch?v=11GW4vhLuP8
youtube.com/watch?v=rPbEOHPAJAM
Iron Fist:
youtube.com/watch?v=TkiSoX_PyvM