Phonetician, YouTuber, blogger • Director UCL SCEP est. 1919 • once wrote BBC's EastEnders • 2 degrees of David Lynch • Lang Lang played my Chopin arrangements
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Study phonetics this summer, in UCL's 200th year! For teachers, students, or fans of English (including native speakers!) join us for the world famous Summer Course in English Phonetics. Early bird fees available to May 8, (and no increase on last year!)
Can you spare two minutes for a listening survey? I'd be grateful if you didn't discuss it elsewhere yet, as this could bias those who haven't taken the survey yet.
I'll explain all in a video coming very soon. THANK YOU — and please share! 🙏
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Happy Holiday Season to all, and here's a new video on the Great Vowel Shift Plus
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Does changing their accent affect their message? Take the poll on my channel.
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What I did on my winter-spring (southern hemisphere) vacation
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Back after too long a gap — what makes you sound young or old, big or small? A dive into the science of voice change 🎙️ 👇
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Even outside academia, on the rare occasions that British/Irish journalists use the term "RP" they use it for the speech of comically old-fashioned, out-of-touch posh folk, as in @finn_mcredmond's piece. The IPA Handbook dropped the term a generation ago. Worth yet another video?
