Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents - (Part 2) | WIRED

Dialect coach Erik Singer once again takes us on a tour of different accents across English-speaking North America. Erik, along with a host of other linguists and language experts, takes a look at some of the most interesting and distinct accents around the country.



Host: Erik Singer

Director: Alice Roth

Producer: Alyssa Marino & Erik Singer

DP: Charlie Jordan

Production Manager: Morgan Winters

Editor: Estan Esparza

Post Production Manager: Nick Ascanio

Head of Programming for WIRED: Chris Conti

Linguists: Nicole Holliday, Megan Figuero, Sunn m’Cheaux, & Kalina Newmark

Dialect demonstrations: Amani Dorn

Oklahoma Indeginous Accent demonstration courtesy of Dennis Sixkiller

Miami English Demonstration courtesy of Christopher Mendoza

Native Lakota Accent Demonstration courtesy of Reg Charging

Special thanks to:

Pamela Vanderway

Eliza Simpson

James N. Stanford

Nacole Walker

Justin McBride

Zachary Cooper

Reg Charging

International Dialects of English Archive

The Language & Life Project

Talkin’ Tar Heel, How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina

Dr. Walt Wolfram

For more reading and resources check out:

The American Dialect Society:

https://www.americandialect.org/

Dictionary of American Regional English and Field Recordings:

https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AAmerLangs

Indigenous North American accents:

https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2017/03/06/how-rez-accents-strengthen-native-identity/

https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/native-american-accents

https://indigenousaccents.info.yorku.ca/resources/

African American Language:

https://oraal.uoregon.edu/

New York Latino English:

http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~mnewman/Site/NYLE.html

Appalachian English

https://artsandsciences.sc.edu/appalachianenglish/

North Carolina accent and dialect variation:

https://talkintarheel.com/

Learning the tools and skills needed to be good at teaching or doing accents:

http://ktspeechwork.org

Language variation and education:

https://charityhudleymallinson.com/resources/secondaryenglish/

Language discrimination and racism:

https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/lsa-statement-race

Lots of accents:

https://www.dialectsarchive.com/

https://www.pinterest.com/dialectcoaches/_created/

https://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/sohp

https://storycorps.org/

http://accent.gmu.edu/

https://visualaccentdialectarchive.com//



00:00 - Intro

00:28 - Southern Louisiana

01:27 - Miami English

02:48 - New Orleans “Yat”

03:26 - Cajun

04:00 - Texas

05:35 - Oklahoma

06:38 - Ozarks

07:03 - Chicago

07:13 - Northern Cities Vowel Shift

09:27 - St. Louis & Memphis

09:55 - Minnesota

10:47 - Lakota, Dakota, Nakota

12:23 - Iowa

13:05 - The Rockies

13:32 - Utah

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Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents - (Part 2) | WIRED