Accent Expert Gives a Tour of North American Accents - (Part 3) | WIRED

For a third time, dialect coach Erik Singer takes us on a tour of different accents across English-speaking North America. Erik, along with a host of other linguists and language experts, takes a look at some of the most interesting and distinct accents around the United States, Mexico and Canada. Host: Erik Singer Director: Alice Roth Producer: Alyssa Marino & Erik Singer Director of Photography: Charlie Jordan Production Manager: Morgan Winters Editor: Justin Sloan Post Production Manager: Nick Ascanio Head of Programming for WIRED: Chris Conti Linguists: Nicole Holliday, Megan Figueroa, Sunn m’Cheaux, & Kalina Newmark Dialect demonstrations: Amani Dorn Language Nest Revitalization Efforts in Hawaii footage courtesy of ʻŌiwiTV and ʻAha Pūnana Le A huge special thanks to: Pamela Vanderway Eliza Simpson James N. Stanford Nacole Walker Justin McBride Zachary Cooper Reg Charging International Dialects of English Archive The Language & Life Project Talkin’ Tar Heel, How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina Dr. Walt Wolfram ʻŌiwiTV and ʻAha Pūnana Le For more reading and resources check out: The American Dialect Society: https://www.americandialect.org/ Dictionary of American Regional English and Field Recordings: https://search.library.wisc.edu/digit... Indigenous North American accents: https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy... https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/na... https://indigenousaccents.info.yorku.... African American Language: https://oraal.uoregon.edu/ New York Latino English: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~mnewman/S... Appalachian English https://artsandsciences.sc.edu/appala... North Carolina accent and dialect variation: https://talkintarheel.com/ Learning the tools and skills needed to be good at teaching or doing accents: http://ktspeechwork.org Language variation and education: https://charityhudleymallinson.com/re... Language discrimination and racism: https://www.linguisticsociety.org/con... Lots of accents: https://www.dialectsarchive.com/   / _created   https://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/landingpag... https://storycorps.org/ http://accent.gmu.edu/ https://visualaccentdialectarchive.com// Harvard Dialect Survey http://dialect.redlog.net/ Podcast Resources: Lingthusiasm podcast The Black Language podcast Because Language podcast The Vocal Fries podcast 00:00 - Intro 00:16 - Southern California  01:07 - Surfer Accent  01:30 - Chicano English  02:51 - Navajo English 03:23 - African American English in California  03:55 - Pacific Northwest 04:13 - San Francisco cot-caught merger 04:30 - Vancouver, Canada  04:44 - Matanuska-Susitna Valley 05:29 - Northwest Territories, Canada 06:16 - Toronto  07:27 - Newfoundland 08:44 - Northeastern New England  09:58 - Conclusion 10:57 - Resources Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►► http://wrd.cm/15fP7B7 Listen to the Get WIRED podcast ►► https://link.chtbl.com/wired-ytc-desc Want more WIRED? Get the magazine ►► https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe... Follow WIRED: Instagram ►►  / wired   Twitter ►►  / wired   Facebook ►►  / wired   Get more incredible stories on science and tech with our daily newsletter: https://wrd.cm/DailyYT Also, check out the free WIRED channel on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Android TV. ABOUT WIRED WIRED is where tomorrow is realized. Through thought-provoking stories and videos, WIRED explores the future of business, innovation, and culture.