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standard language ideology

What is the Value of Broad Transcription?

February 16, 2016 Philip Thompsonconventions, linguistics, phonetics, questions, standard language ideology, The Empty Chart, transcription

This blog post is an open inquiry: what is the value of teaching broad transcription to actors these days? Every fall, I teach phonetics to my first-year acting students at Rutgers. Every fall, we go through the empty consonant chart, […]

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Why the Detail Model Had to Go

February 4, 2016September 23, 2019 Erik SingerDudley, Principles (perhaps), roots, Skinner, standard language ideology, Uncategorized

(Roots, part III) The teaching of any prescriptive speech pattern as some sort of basis or ‘neutral’ will inevitably encode privilege and elitism, alienate actors from nonstandard speech backgrounds, and actively impede the acquisition of accurate and detailed perception and […]

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Roots

November 7, 2014September 23, 2019 Erik SingerDudley, linguistics, Principles (perhaps), roots, standard language ideology

I’ve been thinking a lot this fall about the roots of this work. Unitarian Universalists like to talk about roots and wings. Roots ground you, connect you to where you’ve come from and what’s important. They form your support system […]

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General American Revisited

July 6, 2012 Philip Thompsonaccents, deep in the weeds, questions, roots, standard language ideology

  I want to share with you a short series of long e-mails between Erik Singer and me on the subject of how to deal with the desire of students to learn some form of “General American.” Erik began the […]

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