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Hi! I want to share the fascination and fun of speech, language and accents, and I’m so grateful to anyone who feels able to support this work via my Patreon.
I studied at University College London and got my PhD at the University of California Los Angeles. I’ve taught at universities including UCL, Edinburgh and Cambridge, published research in many areas, and worked as a forensic analyst. I’ve given invited lectures and workshops around the world.
I wrote the influential ‘English After RP’ (Palgrave Macmillan), and my blog contains over a hundred audio-illustrated articles. I’m co-editor of the free searchable online pronouncing dictionary CUBE.
I’ve also worked in film and TV as a screenwriter and director. I wrote the screenplay and arranged the music (performed by Lang Lang) for the animated fantasy Magic Piano, which was shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination.
From Dr Geoff Lindsey. A investigation into a increase in the use of a indefinite article without ‘n’ . Is it only a American thing, or a international phenomenon? Join my Discord: https://discord.com/invite/UBWMy5wqZY The clip of South African English is from Paul Meier’s International Dialects of English Archive, IDEA https://www.dialectsarchive.com and is used with his…
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From Dr Geoff Lindsey. Why Kamala Harris’s pronunciation of her own name isn’t so straightforward for Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart of the podcast ‘The Rest is Politics’ 0:00 Introduction 1:09 Kamala’s origins 1:32 Nativizing exotic words 4:04 Not nativizing exotic words 7:29 Trisyllabic shortening 9:11 Comma? 10:47 The Between Insight 11:56 Rory’s learning curve
From Dr Geoff Lindsey. Unlock deeper insights and sharpen your critical thinking with Ground News. Subscribe through my link https://ground.news/drgeofflindsey for 40% off unlimited access this month with the Vantage Plan. In this video I explore new research proposing a ‘phonetic alphabet’ for sperm whale vocalizations! Original article by Sharma et al: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47221-8 Philip Meyer…
From Dr Geoff Lindsey. 80,000 Hours is a nonprofit offering free research-based help on careers that make a difference. Get their in-depth guide at https://80000hours.org/drgeofflindsey. Want to know why actors in Golden Age Hollywood movies sound different from people today? A legend has grown up that it was all because an Australian and a Canadian…
From Dr Geoff Lindsey. Practice critical thinking and become a smarter news consumer by subscribing through my link https://ground.news/drgeofflindsey to get 40% off unlimited access with the Vantage Plan. So often linguists seem to be defending language errors simply because they’re all ‘woke’. In this video we look at prescriptivism and descriptivism, standards, language ‘rules’,…
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From Dr Geoff Lindsey. Sign up for a 14-day free trial and enjoy all the amazing features MyHeritage has to offer https://bit.ly/DrGeoffLindseyMH Practically the moment the familiar vowel symbols for British English were published, they plummeted drastically out of fashion. This video explains how and why. 0:00 Introduction 1:04 MyHeritage 2:45 A. C. Gimson’s book…
From Dr Geoff Lindsey. Ever wondered why the vowel symbols most widely used for ‘British English’ don’t sound the way they do in the International Phonetic Alphabet? It’s because they were chosen long ago to describe an upper class accent that’s now considered, well, a bit ridiculous. Anyone who wants to cling to these symbols…
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From Dr Geoff Lindsey. People are amazed when I use Google Translate to explain the difference between the English vowels shown in dictionaries as /ɪ/ and /iː/ (aka ‘short i and long e’, or the KIT vowel and the FLEECE vowel). With a little help from French! 0:00 Intro: KIT and FLEECE 1:34 Standard phonetic…
From Dr Geoff Lindsey. Hear the fascinating rhythms that distinguish American, British and Australian accents – rhythms that are misrepresented by the major dictionaries, and that can trip up American actors when they aim at a ‘British’ accent! Also, learn why do English and Australian speakers say ‘law/r/and order’ with linking R, and why so-called…
From Dr Geoff Lindsey. A story about koalas, mermaids and goats. 0:00 Introduction and quiz 0:44 Analysing ‘going’ 3:30 The GenAus GOAT vowel 6:05 New developments 11:51 Comparison with ‘intrusive’ r 12:57 Interaction with hard attack 14:27 Explanation in 3D https://www.youtube.com/user/muchelleb https://www.youtube.com/user/aussieenglish https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC13M4ASYG2k6kNjA5zyR1QQ https://www.youtube.com/c/ElliotRobertsVideos @maddy_macrae_ University of Glasgow Seeing Speech https://seeingspeech.arts.gla.ac.uk/ipa-charts/ Praat speech analysis app…
From Dr Geoff Lindsey. It’s rare for a language to have a ‘fricative trill’ sound in addition to its regular /r/, but Czech is one such language. Hear it on my trip to the once-every-4-years Phonetics Congress in stunning Prague. 20th International Congress of Phonetics Sciences, 7-11 Aug 2023 was hosted by the Institute of…
From Dr Geoff Lindsey. Go to https://www.piavpn.com/drgeofflindsey to get 83% off Private Internet Access with 4 months free! #PrivateInternetAccess #vpn #PIA #bestvpn An exploration of vocal fry: what it is, who does it, what it means–and why some people hate it! 0:00 Introduction: what is vocal fry? 2:17 Is vocal fry used at the end…