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 k ə it. 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 ɛ u or æu or ɜ u, 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