Alabama Dialects South | Journey Proud (Full Episode)
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- Our language and speech do much to define who we are. Journey Proud welcomes linguist Dr. Anna Head in a trek across Lower Alabama from Elba to Mobile talking to a number of folks about their speech and what it means to them. In doing so, we will learn about the Confederate Vowel and unvoiced obstruents.
This Is awesome. I'm always a fan for southern accent. Though I'm an Asian... Growin up with cowboy movies and country music....
Y’all’ understand us yet? No, well good it’s a proud mixture of British upper class, Gaelic, with a hint of German and Dutch
Z'at so? I never can figure out how to pinpoint our accent, and I'm from Huntsville, which has so many people from outta state that we don't have much of an Alabamian accent at all! I've been trying to teach myself a more heavily accented, authentic accent for years, but I've never managed it. Now the only times I "sound Southern" is the words I choose, not the accent itself. Sometimes my i's are Southern.
So aggrieved that Huntsville has such a subtle accent.
I've been watching your videos to try to cotton onto a more accented Alabamian accent, because everyone up north thinks I'm from ST. LOUIS!
Everyone at my school calls Alabamians backward and inbred.
Next time I get insulted by my college classmates who don't know what they're talking about, I'm gonna give them the most *polite, eloquent* put-down possible!!
I’m also related to some Brackners out of Mcalla and Tuscaloosa Alabama.
Mobile, AL native here, well, eastern shore
Hi there, please ad english subtitle on your video, please
Beginning Narrators, sound more of a Kentucky accent. The elder generations accent is beautiful.
I've had people point out to me, throughout life, that I use what you describe as the Confederate vowel though this is the first time I've heard it called "Confederate vowel". My girlfriend, who is from another country, has also pointed this out to me.
I had wondered if Anna had elected to lean into her own accent to compensate for being inclined to surpress it while on camera. Seemed like everyone who was made aware that dialect and accent was the focus of the interview leaned into theirs.
I hear a lot of schwa sound in her vowels as well.
Tom Hanks copied the voice of his young costar (If you watch the original audition tape, Tom Hanks does not use any type of accent). But Hanks soon realized there was no way the little boy with a deep Mississippi drawl would be able to mimic his voice; instead, it was easier for him to emulate Humphreys'.