Received Pronunciation
Prince harry Adopted Americanisms!!!
British Royal is speaking like an American????? [Published on 04-21-2022]
How a New Accent Overturned BBC Tradition and Messed With the Nazis
Another thing about RP and the BBC.
The RP English Accent – What is it, how does it sound, and who uses it?
Play videoA brief overview of RP - the history and cultural significance of the accent, and a few physiological details
Miraculous Accent
Play videoLanguage is miraculous. It is diverse because of various regions, there comes accents. Siobhan Thompson imitates 17 different accents in Britain, exploring which region may speak these accents and who are the people that speak these accents. She presents typical stars or movie actors and demonstrates accents like RP, Received Pronunciation, the standard BBC English; Heightened RP, generally spoken in movies or television; London; East Anglia; West County; Northern Welsh and the like. United Kingdom is not among one of those countries with the large territory but it has more than 17 kinds of accents. How can you believe the millions of accents spoken around the world? Besides the amazing of the large numbers of accents, the diverse culture and language behind the accents are also amazing. It is easy to find that people who speak different accents sometimes have their own slang, which represents for their unique culture.
Accent Tour of the UK
We talked in class about how one person producing two versions of one vowel was helpful when asking people to evaluate or respond to speech, because it eliminates other factors such as age and gender, and controls for the vowel itself. I thought this was a really good example of that: this man is really good at putting on a lot of the accents of the UK, and the fact that it is just one person makes it really easy to hear the differences in his speech.
The Queen's Christmas Broadcast 1984
Play videoI use this with the following reading: Harrington, Jonathan et al. 2000. Monophthongal vowel changes in Received Pronunciation: An acoustic analysis of the Queen's Christmas Broadcast.
The Queen's Christmas Broadcast 1957
Play videoI use this with the following reading: Harrington, Jonathan et al. 2000. Monophthongal vowel changes in Received Pronunciation: An acoustic analysis of the Queen's Christmas Broadcast.
The Queen's Christmas Broadcast 1985
Play videoI use this with the following reading: Harrington, Jonathan et al. 2000. Monophthongal vowel changes in Received Pronunciation: An acoustic analysis of the Queen's Christmas Broadcast.
BBC English
Play videoA BBC Two segment on BBC English, which may be another term for Received Pronunciation, and its impact on other varieties of English
Received Pronunciation and Shakespeare's "Original Pronunciation"
Play videoActor Ben Crystal performs Shakespeare in both Received Pronunciation and what he calls Shakespeare's "Original Pronunciation" (Early Modern English?) and discusses the differences between the two.