[HN Gopher] Phonetic change in an Antarctic winter (2019)
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       Phonetic change in an Antarctic winter (2019)
        
       Author : redbell
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2023-08-20 14:05 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | ashleney wrote:
       | I always get excited when there's a linguistics post on
       | hackernews only to get disappointed by yet another analysis of
       | the vowels of English dialects.
        
       | totetsu wrote:
       | Anyone can run praat and do formant analysis but understanding
       | where and what normalization is needed is what makes this kind of
       | thing really tricky.
        
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       | floehopper wrote:
       | I spent 2 winters in Antarctica with people with strong accents,
       | e.g. Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish, Scouse, Geordie, Cumbrian,
       | and Devonian. On my return to the UK a lot of people said I'd
       | developed a Brummie accent, although none of my fellow winterers
       | were from Birmingham. My theory was that I'd developed an accent
       | averaged across all the strong ones! It's interesting to see a
       | scientific study showing how accents changed over an Antarctic
       | winter!
        
       | NoZebra120vClip wrote:
       | Wow, extremely interesting! I must say that title goaded me into
       | clicking the article.
       | 
       | I had a classmate in 5th grade who went to Australia for the
       | summer, and returned with a pronounced accent. It really gave us
       | a thrill.
       | 
       | I know lots of British English, but I find it difficult to speak
       | unless I'm in a British environment.
        
         | pard68 wrote:
         | I am from northern Connecticut on the Massachusetts border. I
         | had a fairly typical rural New England accent. As an adult I
         | decided I wanted to own a farm and I hated the NE winter, so I
         | moved to southern Missouri. I now sound like I was born here,
         | but if I go home I'm back to dropping R's and calling
         | milkshakes "frappes" within a day.
        
           | CoastalCoder wrote:
           | I grew up in S.E. Connecticut, and we called them milkshakes.
           | 
           | First time I heard frappe was on a visit to Rhode Island.
           | 
           | (A pretty short distance, granted.)
        
             | pard68 wrote:
             | One of the wildest things about New England is how a short
             | distance gets you a totally different culture. I used to go
             | to New Britain (CT) a lot, what a different world from the
             | Windsor area.
             | 
             | I was really given a wake up call one day when I realized
             | that the trip to the airport here in Missouri is longer
             | than driving all the way across CT. Heck, I think to get to
             | the nearest airport is about the same distance as driving
             | to Portland Maine from the CT border (fourish hours)
        
               | CoastalCoder wrote:
               | And yet, driving 30 minutes through CT is more boring
               | than 4 hours through MO :)
        
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