What makes an accent? - Monthly Mailbag #9

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What makes one accent different from another? With the help of archive footage of the Nobel Prize-winning Braggs and his own Canadian twang, Jon walks us through the key features of English accents. Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe How do vowel mergers and splits, rhoticity, and diphthongs come together to structure different accents? Explore accents around the world with the great Dynamic Dialects project: http://www.dynamicdialects.ac.uk/ Watch more archive footage on our dedicated channel: https://www.youtube.com/riarchives Learn more about the Braggs' legacy: https://youtu.be/a-jE7BM902Q If you have a burning science question you'd like us to answer next month, stick it in the comments section below. The Ri is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution and Tumblr: http://ri-science.tumblr.com/ Our editorial policy: http://www.rigb.org/home/editorial-policy Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://bit.ly/RiNewsletter #Accent, #LanguageLearning, #Linguistics, #SpeechPatterns, #MonthlyMailbag

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