Very excited that a recent article I co-authored with Dr James Grama and Professor Catherine Travis of Sydney Speaks has been accepted and published online with the Voice and Speech Review! Our article is titled “Australian English Over Time: Using Sociolinguistic Analysis to Inform Dialect Coaching”, and brings together acoustic vowel data spanning forty years to examine the changes in Sydney English, and how this can apply to coaching of Australian accents. This is my first research publication, and I’m thrilled to be able to share this after all our hard work.
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Here in Sydney we have a couple of auditions right around the corner for productions involving a Yorkshire dialect. Given that this is something far different from the General American or RP accents most Australian performers are asked to do, I’ve put together a little crash course in creating a Yorkshire sound.
Of course, it’s not a possible to cover the entirety of a dialect in one short video, so instead I’ve presented a few easy sound substitution strategies that can be put in practice if you need a more Yorkshire sound on short notice, especially for learning audition call back material.
Have a watch, and let me know what you think!
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