Geoff Lindsey

Even more British sociophonetic navel-gazing youtu.be/XeHiinTkGCo

New video on Lancashire rhoticity! youtu.be/o5HF7banagI

Happy Holiday Season to all, and here's a new video on the Great Vowel Shift Plus youtube.com/watch?v=mvLYB3…

Does changing their accent affect their message? Take the poll on my channel. youtu.be/LuDmrfn2sks?si…

Something a bit different as a Halloween treat youtu.be/mvUbrnhlN6I

What I did on my winter-spring (southern hemisphere) vacation youtu.be/9nI7AuPmwlA?si…

Back after too long a gap — what makes you sound young or old, big or small? A dive into the science of voice change 🎙️ 👇 youtu.be/0jac1bgC8g0

@phono_logical @neilalexanderw1 @nyelvtudos @xav_moss “þo' some have strong diphþongs (e.g my FL aunt's [məj] 'me'), many do not” And, conversely, PRICE and MOUTH are monophthongs in some accents. (And apparently it’s ok to use j for a diphþong glide in FL [məj].)

@phono_logical @neilalexanderw1 @nyelvtudos @xav_moss “HE EATS never = HE YEETS” Indeed, /hɪj ɪjts/ never = /hɪj jɪjts/. Many EFL teachers are misled into imagining inserted linking /j w/ because they hear and feel the glide in e.g. ‘I am’ /aj æm/ but can’t see it in conventional transcription.

Helvetica, the most famous and undisputed king of typefaces, has most IPA characters? Since when???

@toru_inulusa @MiguelGuelbec Even those aren't a minimal pair, as there's some kind of stress difference. You often get 'stress shift' e.g. the speaker here youtube.com/watch?v=s6PCSR… says an UNtidy WORK area. This can only happen because un- is stressed in a way that 'and' /ən/ isn't.

My professor is contradicting Dr. Geoff Lindsey regarding wedges and schwas. @GeoffLindsey

@toru_inulusa @MiguelGuelbec Exactly. But there's definitely an idea quite widely held in America that Wedge is What You Must Write When It's Stressed. Sigh.

Even outside academia, on the rare occasions that British/Irish journalists use the term "RP" they use it for the speech of comically old-fashioned, out-of-touch posh folk, as in @finn_mcredmond's piece. The IPA Handbook dropped the term a generation ago. Worth yet another video?

@nomegret Haven't turned this one into a video yet. englishspeechservices.com/blog/two-direc…

@GeoffLindsey any insights on british accents and singing?

@hurricanecookie @VictoriaCoren I think the point here is that for many younger Am speakers they're NOT merged, though they don't *contrast* in weak positions. So many speakers say they definitely have schwa in RussiA and KIT in RussiAn. That's not a merger. But there's no contrast: LennOn, LenIn both have KIT

@VictoriaCoren Geoff Lindsey just explained this!! But basically in some US accents (and even some non-US ones!), the reduced vowels /ə/ and /ɪ/ can merge. In my accent, shin; Russian; and Prussian do in fact rhyme.

How do they get AWAY with this? I mean, however American your accent might be, PRUSSIAN?!

@Microlambert @spiderbatfrog Most have the TRAP vowel æ(ə) in calf and half, though some will have a raised variant ɛə. And in AmE it's not a short vowel, despite what some phonics teachers may say. AmE doesn't have a clear length distinction the way speakers in England and Australia do.

@GeoffLindsey @spiderbatfrog What about calf/decaf? Surely not all North American accents have that short vowel in 'calf'?

I think we might need the help of @GeoffLindsey with this one!