All About Accents

The crux of accent work: pronunciation


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In this episode, Dani and Lucas discuss how to approach new pronunciations of words when learning a new accent. They take a look at the sound inventories of different accents and highlight what tools you can use to change how you pronounce specific vowels and consonants, including the famous IPA (not the beer, sorry) and the super useful KIT list.

Mentioned on this episode (plus other useful resources):

  • The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
  • Lexical Sets - original source: Wells, J. C. (1982). Accents of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • The IPA chart with sounds
  • ...more
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    All About AccentsBy Dani Morse-Kopp