From Dr Geoff Lindsey.
A investigation into a interesting development!
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0:00 Intro and articles
0:49 Hiatus
2:39 Hard Attack
6:03 Weak Form Strengthening
6:55 ‘A’ before a vowel in London, S Africa and AAVE
9:43 ‘A’ before a vowel in General American
13:36 ‘A’ before a vowel in British English
14:41 What can possibly go wrong?
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 permission. Paul is a dialect coach and author of Accents and Dialects for Stage and Screen, which includes instruction on the Afrikaans accent from that work:
Anne Hathaway by VOGUE Taiwan, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license
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