INTRO TO THE IRISH MIDLANDS DIALECT
Mainstage 2015
HOMEWORK: I LOVE BEING IRISH.
CLIP ONE
WRITE DOWN ANYTHING YOU NOTICE ABOUT HOW THE ACTOR SPEAKS. TAKE NOTE OF THINGS THAT MAKES HIS ACCENT DIFFERENT THAN A STANDARD AMERICAN ACCENT.
WHERE IS IRELAND?
WORLD
EUROPE
BRITISH ISLES
WHERE IS THE MIDLANDS?
IRELAND
CITIES
SOME HELPFUL VOCAB! PHONETICS: THE STUDY OF SPEECH SOUNDS VOWELS: AN OPEN SPEECH SOUND (A, E, I,
O, U, Y) CONSONANTS: A PARTIALLY OBSTRUCTED
SPEECH SOUND (ALL OTHER LETTERS) MONOPHTHONG: SINGULAR VOWEL SOUND
(TEETH, BIRD, POD) DIPHTHONG: A VOWEL CLUSTER; TWO
VOWEL SOUNDS IN ONE SYLLABLE (SOUTH, VOICE, ICE, LOUD, BEARD)
TRIPHTHONG: A VOWEL CLUSTER; THREE VOWEL SOUNDS IN ONE SYLLABLE (HOUR, FIRE, LOYAL)
PHONETICS OF MIDLANDS IRISH ACCENT
PHONETICS CONTINUED The dipthong in kite often starts from a centralized place: IPA kəit. To American and British ears, kite can sound a bit like “koyt.”
KITE KOYT The diphthong in mouth is often fronted to something like IPA ɛu or æu or ɜu, among other variants. Hence mouth can sound like “meh-ooth.”
MOUTH MEH-OOTH Th becomes IPA t and d in words like thing and this (i.e. “tin” and “dis”).
THING TIN THIS DIS
