ACCENT COACH REACTS to the Boston Accent
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- Опубліковано 6 лип 2024
- Accent coach Matt Pocock reacts a native recording of the Boston accent, courtesy of the International Dialects of English Archive.
The Accent Recording: www.dialectsarchive.com/massa...
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Native Bostonian here . . . this example accent is extremely light and thus rather misleading. Too many R's. The most authentic passage is "rare form of foot and mouth disease." That comment notwithstanding (which has nothing to do with your estimable skill!), your ear is pretty astounding and I love this channel!
You make some really great observations here. I’ve been living in Boston my whole life and I’m still trying to figure it out. My husband grew up in Cambridge and he will say things that I still need clarification on! As a musician, I’ve had many a conductor who asked for “shot notes” (short) half the band understands and half are like huh??? I have a typical standard American accent, but slip in and out of the Boston accent when I’m tired or in a hurry. Very inconsistent indeed!
This was great!
This girl has a really typical younger Boston accent.
Older people, usually 60 and older have a different “old” Boston accent. For example They would elongate the “a” in yard more often and the put an extra “r” where it doesn’t belong. For example, the name Samantha becomes “samanther” or soda becomes “soder”
Loving these!
Thanks for helping me with accents hope you’re doing well love your videos.
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This is great! It's funny what you pick up on.
My parents have South Boston accents and theirs are much stronger (or "wicked strawngah").
Hers is fairly average for the younger Boston accent. I'm 40 and I say "yahhd" for yard. Another thing is we put in "R"s where they don't belong. Around the 1:30 mark after you point out "North Square," she says "That area (arear) was much..."
Many people all over New England sound similar, but it's heavier in the Boston/Cambridge areas, & parts of Maine. Normal, sounds like nohmal, car like cah, door like doah, mister like mistah, coffee like cawfee, here like heah. Great video.
Great observations. Born and raised in Boston. The accent can vary depending upon what part of the state you are from. The readers accent sounds like she is from the North Shore such as Saugus, Salem , Gloucester etc. . A well known Bostonian such as Mark Wahlberg has a Dorchester accent. There are little nuances that those of us from the area can pick out. There is a misconception that everyone from Boston has a strong accent. Do you remember the scene from Departed when Mark Wahlberg’s character tells Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, “when you are in Southie you’re dropping your r’’s. But when your home with your rich family in Marblehead you sound completely different “? That statement was spot on. I have been told that I don’t have an accent however my father has a very thick one.. Odd considering he and my mother’s ancestors were the original Puritans.
Keep up the good work, Matt :)
The "her" vs "squa-uh" is actually a well known to natives wrinkle in the accent. If the following word starts with a vowel (especially the short-a in "and") the "r" stays, or in some cases, is _added_. The canonical example is "pizza and beer", which is often pronounced as "pizz-er and bee-ah". I've dubbed this phenomenon as the "Conservation of Rs" in the Boston accent.
please Coud you make a lot of videos about connected speech
I’m watching and thinking we don’t talk like that. So I say the words out loud and am stunned….. I do sound like that. Oh gawd
for me is similiar Boston accent in some words from Bristish accent ,Bristish accent is the Best.
As a Bostonian you’d usually see less of the “awe” in terms of frequency but the “awe” sound would be more prominent in words like north ‘nawth’ or something of that nature there are also a lot more prominent “ah” sounds like hard would go to ‘hahd’ or sucker would go to ‘Suckah’ and something that I didn’t hear that is very common in a Boston accent is adding r’s onto words like “idea” would go to “ider” or “saw” would be “sawr” or law would be “Lawr” but the r is only added if the word is followed by a vowel
Yessss thank you for noting the subtleties. This is where a lot of actors get it wrong, and assume everything is just a big non-r party (pahty?)! I think it's what makes folks from the Northeast cringe when we hear it. Also, a note on that "r" after area: very common in between words when one ends in vowel (think, "Put your bra on" becomes "Put your braron"), but I would argue that fewer people add r to the end of a sentence (Florider instead of Florida), though it does sometimes happen. Fun anecdote: I was about 14 when I learned that "drawer" (like, something you pull out from a dresser/bureau) is spelled D-R-A-W-E-R, because I had always, always, always said "draw" and so did everyone else I knew! I say "dror" now, so I'm not sure it's any better.
I was about 10 or 11 when I finally realized idea is pronounced without an r at the end and not idear.
In Boston we pronounce the r if there's a vowel in the end like square there care
I think it is generally non-rhotic, but in stressed syllables it's ɚ or ɝ not the non r-colored vowels. It's also only those two vowels.
Hey Matt ! Born and bred in Boston here. You have a great ear. Yes..this is a soft Boston accent. She uses too many hard " R's " ya don't need 'em...chuck 'em...useless things....just replace all those r's with ah's.
You said that it sounds kind of Irish and that's because the Irish are the biggest ethnic group in Boston followed closely by Italian, French Canadian, and Jewish people.
React to the Australian Accent. Many people do an Australian accent and call it a British accent.
wait this is not a typescript lib review video
So there is a Boston accent but there is different dialects for which part of Massachusetts your from. I'm from Dorchester and we have a really thick accent and don't pronounce our "R's" like "ah" Opposed to the north shore or south shore like this girl in the audio clip sounds like "o-ah". Also we say "wicked" a lot. "She's wicked smart (smaht)" or "It's wicked hot outside" or we also substitute a word with "ing" on the end with 'in. "What are you do'in" "It's freezin outside"
Let me know if you want a true bostonian audio recording.
Job is pronounced like joab in most American accents, not only Boston!
I've lived all over the US and I would have to strongly disagree with this. In the broader Northeastern US, sure, but nowhere else (at least not in my experience).
Did you catch the 'r' at the end of 'area'. She says 'arear'. Very common in North-Eastern US with words that in schwa.
Woah, what? Timestamp please. Was there an initial vowel in the word following 'area'?
At 1:31 there's an intrusive 'r' between 'area' and 'was'. I've heard this sort of thing happens a lot in British English as well e.g. 'saw it' becomes 'sar it'. However, many New Englanders put 'r's at the end of words even they are the last word in the sentence. These words usually end in a schwa . I've heard 'Florida' become 'Florider', and 'spatula' become 'spatuler' for example.
@@teddyjones3055 That's awesome, you're right. There's some strong r-colouring in that schwa sound. Great catch.
I'd classify the one you're talking about above as a British English linking R, between 'saw' and 'it'. But you're dead right about this r-coloured schwa. Got anything I can read on this? Or is this just instinct?
@@MattPocock regarding the r-colored schwas, it could be more of a Maine thing, though I had assumed it was something common to many New England accents. Here's a link to an article explaining many of the idiosyncrasies of the Maine accent. downeast.com/arts-culture/dialects/ Your videos are top-notch.
@@teddyjones3055 we all do it in mass. Its wore common in central mass rather than boston.
Are the Boston accent very similar to the Australian accent?
Being an ex-Brooklynite I had a difficult time chattin' with folks in Boston. Especially the civil servants (i.e. cops/firemen/mass transit). I once asked a dude in a suit directions to the Boston Garden. His reply was "they don't call it that anymore". I responded "I didn't ask for a history lesson, just tell me where f'ing Garden is". Whatta freakin' douchbag.
Native speaker here. The reason she added the r in "her" is because the next word starts with a vowel. The entire idea is to speak more quickly.
I noticed bits of Michigan pronunciation has crept into her Boston accent. It looks like the inland north vowel shift is going to reach the East Coast.
Can you make a Russian accent tutorial in two minutes please?
As a native of Massachusetts this is not a good representation of our accent. We don’t use ing bu “in “ like as in sittin vs sitting. And we more substitute the short A sound for r except if a word end in A the we put in an R where it doesn’t belong like”Piaazr”
Can you do an Israeli accent
If you want to hear Boston, just watch a Mark Wahlberg movie
Four years and no video. Are you dead?
Are you still ALIVE and KICKING?
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