Erik Singer

Dialect coach

[Erik Singer @accentvoiceguy]

New video (been working on this one for a while): A tour of North American accents (with special guests!): https://t.co/wq3CsLF2Vz

[Erik Singer @accentvoiceguy]

Everybody watch City on Fire! First 3 eps out today. Sweeping scope, sharply drawn characters, compelling plot, and great performances!

[Erik Singer @accentvoiceguy]

So happy with how well this show is doing and how well Ramón’s beautiful, sensitive, funny performance is being received

[Erik Singer @accentvoiceguy]

Very nice shoutout from Ramón Rodriguez in the Washington Post on our work together creating Will Trent’s voice and accent. https://t.co/mHjlgMevqa

[Erik Singer @accentvoiceguy]

@CPharris11 That’s just…how words work. That’s how language operates. The random collections of sounds that make up words don’t have any inherent meaning outside of what you’re describing

[Erik Singer @accentvoiceguy]

A few thoughts on whether Austin “still sounds like Elvis.” tldr: around the edges a bit, maybe, but not really; most of what I think people are reacting to has to do with resonance change over time, due to vocal maturity and masses of singing, not accent. https://t.co/BFKY2vE9VH

[Erik Singer @accentvoiceguy]

Why thank you!

[Erik Singer @accentvoiceguy]

@ZachWeiner gravlax

[Austine @theereal_one]

y’all ever wake up from a dream & be impressed??! like damn, the narrative structure and plot line was amazing 😭😭

[Erik Singer @accentvoiceguy]

Congrats, Austin!!!

#elvis #dialectcoach #idiolect https://t.co/KR8WjlyGiH

[Erik Singer @accentvoiceguy]

@aa0015f 😉

[Erik Singer @accentvoiceguy]

@lawgal09 and that both appear widely across most of the US. This paper by linguist Leslie Barratt is great: https://t.co/NSFyU1Y94n

[Erik Singer @accentvoiceguy]

@lawgal09 More research is needed. My impressionistic sense is that there are some regional patterns to this usage, but the existing evidence shows that the main split is between younger and older speakers, with ‘on accident’ being widespread among those <25 but vary rare among those >50,

[Erik Singer @accentvoiceguy]

@TiloGummel So the non-rhotic speaker’s brain has a sound rule in it that goes like this: “the final sound in ‘father’ = uh. But if the next word starts with a vowel sound (as in “father is”) then it’s uh + R.” And then that same rule gets applied to “India is,” because structurally it’s =

[Erik Singer @accentvoiceguy]

@TiloGummel Well, it’s not Brits trying to sound posh—“intrusive” R is a widespread feature of non-rhotic accents, whether Boston, NYC, Australian, English, or what have you. As to the why: it’s because for non-rhotic speakers, the words India and father (for example) end in the SAME SOUND..

[Erik Singer @accentvoiceguy]

@Gabriel_M_Bland But also consider what everyone else in the show/movie is doing. If you’re doing a period accent and everyone else is doing contemporary accents, that will usually end up sounding weird, in a way that is unlikely to serve the overall piece, unless that specific effect is desired

[Erik Singer @accentvoiceguy]

@Gabriel_M_Bland Find the perfect model

[Erik Singer @accentvoiceguy]

@mixedlinguist @LingSocAm Ah, this is great. Super well-deserved! Congrats, Nicole!

[Erik Singer @accentvoiceguy]

@itsgeorginamay Phonetically these sounds are [tʃ] and [dʒ].

We have the ever-brilliant @jcwells_phon to thank for the term ‘jod-coalescence’, among many, many other contributions, including the concept of lexical sets, which is invaluable for the study, description, and coaching of accents

[Erik Singer @accentvoiceguy]

@itsgeorginamay But most Brits and Australians have sort of ‘crunched’ (not a technical term 😉) the jod together with the initial consonants, resulting in a CH sound (for ‘tune’) or a DG sound (for ‘dune’). Thus ‘jod-coalescence’—the jod has ‘coalesced’ into the T or D