Dialect
In the yard, not too far from the car
A favorite scene from Jaws. I feel like this is a really interesting example of indexicality. Brody and Ellen are clearly aware of (r)-0 in coda position, though they probably wouldn't call it that, and they seem to have some idea of what it indexes and joke about that with each other.
A Zine Piece Written in Hawaiian Pidgin
Pages 12-13. Written by a native Hawaiian in [Published on 03-01-2022]
American pop culture LOVES these 10 accents
Play videovideo explaining how different accents are used to portray personae in American pop culture media
Linguistics prof. analyzes Blink-182 Accent
Article about regional dialect and vocal stylings in pop-punk music. Goes into non-rhoticity and California Shift (article mentions Eckert!) [Published on 06-18-2015]
Chaoju Tang, Vincent J. van Heuven, 2009: Mutual intelligibility of Chinese dialects experimentally tested
a study on mutual intelligibility of 15 Chinese varieties, which the graph shown in the tiktok video is based on
Why some speakers can't understand speakers who understand them - Asymmetric Intelligibility
Play videoThis video explains the phenomenon of asymmetric intelligibility.
Fred Armisen Does Every North American Accent
Play videoComedian Fred Armisen gives us his take on the regional accents of the US, with brief descriptions of the differences between them.
Naked mole-rat colonies have their own dialects—selected by their monarch
Play videoRodents exhibiting use of dialect in verbal communication. Would be cool to index dialects in naked mole rats..
Spongebob Squarepants - I Can't Understand Your Accent
Play videosponge bob being discriminated against due to the unintelligibility of his "accent" (probably more like a dialect).
MLE
explaining how London youth speak: "One of our most interesting findings," she says, "was that we'd have groups of students from white Anglo-Saxon backgrounds, along with those of Arab, South American, Ghanaian and Portuguese descent, and they all spoke with the same dialect. But those who use it most strongly are those of second or third generation immigrant background, followed by white boys of London origin and then white girls of London origin."
Instructional Video on Beijing Dialect
Play videoThis video is part of an instructional course on speaking "Beijing Dialect", presented by a young man with background music. This video focuses on a specific rhotacized word, but the presenter uses rhotacized speech throughout the video. I think this relates to our reading on rhoticity as relating to a "smooth" characteristic that goes in hand with other character traits to form a "smooth" persona.
Different Chinese Dialect Groups in Malaysia
Play videoThis video shows different Chinese dialect groups in Malaysia and their respective histories. From the video, the relationship between language and immigration can be seen clearly, addressing the importance of social environment in the process of forming different Chinese dialect groups in Malaysia.
Southern Dialect Pt. 1
Play videoStudy of Southern accents - rhotic or “r” pronouncing Mountain Southern, and non-rhotic or “r” dropping Plantation or Tidewater Southern.
Mapping How Americans Talk - Soda vs. Pop vs. Coke
Play videoThis video shows the numerous dialects found in and around America. The video also shows us that despite speaking the same language, we can have multiple different words to describe a single product or object.
Are There Internet Dialects?
Play videoA run through of different internet communities of practice and different.