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Which accent should the phonetic representation be based on? Thick lousiana accent? Southeast london accent? Boston southie accent? Mid-atlantic? No matter
by monknomo 1y ago
Which accent should the phonetic representation be based on?
Thick lousiana accent? Southeast london accent? Boston southie accent? Mid-atlantic?
No matter what you choose, it won't be phonetic for someone
- sorrythanks 1y agotype in your own accent, it works when we talk
- thfuran 1y agoIt sometimes work when we talk.
- tracker1 1y agoThe west-coast US/Canadian accent most likely as it's most prominent in popular media, and likely the largest English speaking accent group. But good luck getting the UK or India to adopt it.
- efitz 1y agoI believe that there is a lowest common denominator for accented English, and it sounds like “sung” English - which sounds like non-regional American English if the singer is singing and doesn’t naturally have a very pronounced accent. This is partially due to cultural effects but partially due to the mechanics of speaking with an accent. By “lowest common denominator“, I mean omitting affectations like non-rotic R (Boston) and dropped g (urban) and exaggerated length of selected vowels (US southeast) and constant syllable length and other kinds of things. There are lots of videos on YouTube about how accents work. But mainly phonetics is about eliminating silent letters, using the most unambiguous letter when there is a choice (eg K or S instead of C), etc. Anyway I’m rambling but you probably get my point.
- thefringthing 1y agoKingsley Read went with something like an artificially rhotic midcentury RP when designing the Shavian alphabet. It works reasonably well for me, a Standard Canadian English speaker, except that distinguishing all the open vowels (father/bought/bot) can be a struggle,