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New Orleans yat accent

Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 3:01 pm
by Perry Lassiter
Go to YouTube and search for Yat Accent. Take the top one with the woman with dark hair and long face. What she says in interesting, but what she doesn't notice is even more so. In my experience, if I ask someone talking like that whether they were born in NOLA, they always say yes.

Re: New Orleans yat accent

Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 9:24 am
by bnjtokyo
I enjoyed this, especially because I could hear her pronounce the words rather than relying on a phonetic transcription. But, Mr. Lassiter, did you notice that a number of the specific questions she addressed are from The Cambridge Online Survey of World English (http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/cambridge_survey/maps)
that I mentioned in my post dated Dec 21 under the Rebel-Yankee Test heading?

Re: New Orleans yat accent

Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 7:27 pm
by Perry Lassiter
Thanks for pointing it out.