Hearing Your Own Accent

A video of someone doing a "Baltimore Accent Test," and saying the phrase "Aaron earned an iron urn." After saying it out loud they seem amazed and say, "We really talk like that?" Their friends also say the phrase, while someone in the background comments on its unintelligibility. It speaks to how difficult it is for us to hear our own accents. [Published on 12-04-2019]

Posted by M Benesch on February 9, 2021

Tags:
Accent;
Prescriptivism;
Perceptual Dialectology

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