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Jane Setter joins the show to talk accents, speech prosody, and her new book "Your Voice Speaks Volumes."
Jane is Professor of Phonetics at The University of Reading, UK. In addition to her new book, she is also co-editor of the Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary and the Cambridge Handbook of Phonetics. Jane's research interests include speech prosody in children from atypical populations, teaching and learning English pronunciation, and features of the suprasegmental phonology of global varieties of English, such as Hong Kong and Malay speaker English.
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In this episode, Jane dives into:
- the influences that pushed her into a career in phonology
- speech classes and how Margaret Thatcher learned to "unshrill" her voice
- being the first phonetician invited to speak at the IATEFL conference
- the why and how of (unconscious) linguistic judgement
- the significance of four seconds in speech recognition
- why television shows choose certain accents for certain roles
- why men can't make their voices sound sexy
- what it means to have a voice that doesn't represent who you are
Read more about this episode on the LYE blog.
More on Jane Setter:
Her book "Your Voice Speaks Volumes"
The Cambridge Book of Phonetics
Twitter: @janesetter
YouTube: Jane Setter
Email: [email protected]
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