[HN Gopher] Phonetic change in an Antarctic winter (2019) ___________________________________________________________________ Phonetic change in an Antarctic winter (2019) Author : redbell Score : 45 points Date : 2023-08-20 14:05 UTC (8 hours ago) (HTM) web link (pubs.aip.org) (TXT) w3m dump (pubs.aip.org) | ashleney wrote: | I always get excited when there's a linguistics post on | hackernews only to get disappointed by yet another analysis of | the vowels of English dialects. | totetsu wrote: | Anyone can run praat and do formant analysis but understanding | where and what normalization is needed is what makes this kind of | thing really tricky. | [deleted] | floehopper wrote: | I spent 2 winters in Antarctica with people with strong accents, | e.g. Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish, Scouse, Geordie, Cumbrian, | and Devonian. On my return to the UK a lot of people said I'd | developed a Brummie accent, although none of my fellow winterers | were from Birmingham. My theory was that I'd developed an accent | averaged across all the strong ones! It's interesting to see a | scientific study showing how accents changed over an Antarctic | winter! | NoZebra120vClip wrote: | Wow, extremely interesting! I must say that title goaded me into | clicking the article. | | I had a classmate in 5th grade who went to Australia for the | summer, and returned with a pronounced accent. It really gave us | a thrill. | | I know lots of British English, but I find it difficult to speak | unless I'm in a British environment. | pard68 wrote: | I am from northern Connecticut on the Massachusetts border. I | had a fairly typical rural New England accent. As an adult I | decided I wanted to own a farm and I hated the NE winter, so I | moved to southern Missouri. I now sound like I was born here, | but if I go home I'm back to dropping R's and calling | milkshakes "frappes" within a day. | CoastalCoder wrote: | I grew up in S.E. Connecticut, and we called them milkshakes. | | First time I heard frappe was on a visit to Rhode Island. | | (A pretty short distance, granted.) | pard68 wrote: | One of the wildest things about New England is how a short | distance gets you a totally different culture. I used to go | to New Britain (CT) a lot, what a different world from the | Windsor area. | | I was really given a wake up call one day when I realized | that the trip to the airport here in Missouri is longer | than driving all the way across CT. Heck, I think to get to | the nearest airport is about the same distance as driving | to Portland Maine from the CT border (fourish hours) | CoastalCoder wrote: | And yet, driving 30 minutes through CT is more boring | than 4 hours through MO :) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-08-20 23:01 UTC)