Accent Expert Gives a Tour of North American Accents - (Part 3) | WIRED
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Channel: WIRED
Views: 514,363
Rating: 4.9489384 out of 5
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Length: 11min 8sec (668 seconds)
Published: Thu Mar 25 2021
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There's a lot of good information in these videos. I'll agree there were a lot of things missed, such as the influence of subtle Asian tonal systems entering the Pacific regional accents over the past century. Overall, though, it's a strong introductory series for people interested in the subject.
Did I miss it or did he just forget to put the self introduction of the Navajo woman at the end?
Erik Singer Accent Series
part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1KP4ztKK0A
part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsE_8j5RL3k
The Newfoundland accent part was pretty poor imho. It was an incredible Irish accent but Newfies donโt sound Irish they sound like Newfoundlanders.
Edit: You guys commenting that itโs not a very good Irish accent are kind-of proving my point eh. I donโt really know any Irish people so I couldnโt properly speak to it. I do, however, know a good number of Newfoundlanders and so that sticks out to me as not right. Kind of makes you wonder how accurate his other accents are!
This video felt very rushed compared to the first two they did. Iโm a little disappointed with the editing work.
The first two were good, but this one was disappointing.
Like the only thing he had to say about the bay area is that there's no cot-caught merger? That's not even true as far as I can tell (I'm from here) and we have the merger just like the rest of the west, but also that's a missed opportunity to talk about all of the more unique aspects of bay area speech, for example L-vocalization!
Also like others were saying i would have loved to hear about the actual Toronto dialect which is hella unique
The final part where he stopped off in Maine seemed to be more of a reflection of the โHollywood-styleโ downeast accent.
As someone in Southern California, I would have liked him to talk about it a little more. I feel like there is a lot going on, linguistically. I have heard it compared in some ways to the vowel shifts in Canada - I went up there once and was told "I didn't have an American accent," haha! Things like carrot being pronounced like "kerrit/kyerrit" (something I do) and some people (not including me) pronouncing catch as "ketch."
Pretty broad definition he used for Pacific Northwest there.