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Is vocal fry an English specific affectation or does it occur in other languages?

Would it be possible to talk about the recent change in the pronunciation of women? It sounds more like wʊmæn now. Is it just me? I've been noticing it a lot lately.

So here's the deal people moan about it all over youtube and I never even gave it a second thought so it stands to reason I can stand it

I always found the vowel chart taught in school a bit strange. This explains why. Thank you and i really hope to see a fleshed out chart with three formant vowel spaces

I don't know if it's my ears getting worse with age, but are people pronouncing 'women' differently now? It used to sound like wih-men. But now I often hear (from young people mostly) woo-men.

You should have touched on Robert Kennedy Jr's vocal condition.

Everyone wants to be Don LaFontaine

Listening to all of your examples of vocal fry hurt me mentally, physically, and spiritually. Thanks 😢

I call it American girl growling. It is extremely annoying!

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An in old times expected affected, partly artificial little girl voice, which is still tried to sell as "normal" woman voice, is much more degrading & annoying than any (natural) fry... I honestly hope that the world fully realize that at some point :)!

3:16 oof

Gary Oldman chews the scenery. Major ham.

Vocal fry IS an affectation. The fact that journalists and actors interpreting upper class characters use vocal fry doesn't deny it, but proves it. If you strategically use uptalk or vocal fry to sound excited or a know-it-all, you are trying to manipulate people, and people don't like being manipulated so become angry at you. That's all, no sexism or other bullshit involved.

Enter Miley Cyrus and the French Bulldog

day after day /dɛi ʲ aftə(ɜ) dɛi/ year on year /jiɹ ɔn jiɜ/

file /fai(ə)ɫ/ i as in fleece foul /faʉ(ə)ɫ/ ʉ as in goose fill /fɪɫ/ ɪ as in kit full /fəɫ/ ə as in nurse I don’t use the /ʊ/ sound at all

Jesus who is the guy at 1:11? He looks like a puppet from the movie Labyrinth

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Born in and grew up in the UK, spend a lot of time around Americans, Hurts accent sounds distinctly American to me, but it's difficult to point at exactly why

Americans pronounce Ts as Ds, because they insist on pronouncing all Rs. The T to D conversion forces one to rely on context, to know if Americans are talking about "coding" or "coating". The British drop many Rs and can pronounce Ts with less stress. When British drop Ts, they sound "low class".

The Fins sound like they have partially swallowed a medium sized frog.

Fry sounds like a violin when the bow is moved too slowly, and it produces a lot of "start stop" vibrations (from irregular frictional slip-stick). In other words, it sounds amateur, lazy or tired. Perhaps young females with small lungs run out of breath and can't put enough "steam" into the end of their sentences. It is as if these ladies are tired, and lying down. Or, they are speaking quietly, to prevent eaves-droppers from listening in.

I love linguistics videos and I feel like sometimes the focus leans towards vowels. This is breaking my brain.

If you can say Kamasutra you can also say Kamala

Watching this video I realized what I actually dislike is not the fry but something I have noticed is I don’t like where the fry starts. It’s a high pitched nasal sound that I highly dislike. I actually don’t mind the fry. But what I don’t like is the nasal sound associated with some who do fry. Personally I don’t like the nasal sound of the California accent in women AND men. But in the Finnish clip I found everyone sounding very normal and it didn’t bother me. The fry makes the nasal quality of the Californian accent pretty annoying, although I find it more annoying in men than women 😂

I remember Ray Romano said aks a few times in Everybody Loves Raymond.

I hear it most in people with low self esteem trying to sound like they have self esteem.

3:20 reminded me of the heffalumps and woozles son from Winnie the Pooh

Now tell me why I love vocal fry so much

I grew up in eastern New England. My great-grandparents (born 1897-1905ish) and grandparents (born 1920s) all spoke like this (to some extent). They didn't take acting lessons or anything else. Everybody older than 35 or 40 spoke like this, or a version of this, when I was a kid.

So THIS is why I "change voices" when speaking english, turns out that my brain took this subconsciously

2:22 - "... and ask pulls a head " 2:35

Finns vocal fry when they know whatever crap coming out of their mouth doesn't need to be said in the first place, that's why every clip here was of people presenting some irrelevant garbage on tv, such as "news". It's a disappointing phenomenon, since as educated people, we ought to know not to blabber in the first place.

This has glottal stop right now! 😄

I've just found out about your little Putin "joke" on your Cube dictionary website. I don't know if this is supposed to be funny, but what I do know is that it has nothing to do on the website of someone who claims to be a "descriptivist" scholar (and neither does the Ukrainian flag at the top of the page, for that matter).

"the language doesn't allow a vowel after a schwa" Yeah, we know, that's what the glottal is for! The other thing about R that Brits regularly get wrong when trying to do US accents is that we don't USE that R and we don't use that other one either! Most of our Rs are approximants in the back of the mouth - bunched velar or rarely retroflex - the dental/alveolar Rs of RP sound pretentious and over-the-top and the labiodental approximant Rs of MLE and other "younger" dialects sound like a toddler who hasn't actually learned how to speak properly yet. Like genuinely if a kid shows up to kindergarten talking like that they get sent to speech therapy until they learn to form the sound without turning it into a W. For obvious reasons the dental/alveolar Rs show up more often when British actors fail at American accents and it makes them sound weirdly clipped and formal. Takes you out of the immersion instantly.

Now I understand the meaning behind this man gets a coffee. I am from Germany. I hear this special sound but it was meaningless to me.

I didn’t know that it had a name, good to be able to put a name to the irritating speech.

4:08 what about this slangy pronunciation of the clitic -ass as -ahh that I encounter in written form with ever increasing frequency?

Another piece of evidence is borrowed words (пейджер), including names (Дэйв), including brand names (Я.Пэй). However, AFAIK it's only for /j/ (because there's no /w/ in Russian) and only in what are usually called diphthongs (probably because of the reduced pronunciation in English, although something like what's in флуд may also be a case)

Do you mean to say that many UA-cam content creators simply unquestioningly copy/paste the Wikipedia article on the subject, without any further research? Surely not!

I noticed that our supervisors (male, Italian, and female, English) employ vf in team meetings (conducted in English) but not usually in other settings. They appear to want to sound more relaxed/above it all when potentially threatened by our boredom.

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Thanks,,,I’ll never listen to people talk the same again. lol❗️

opiate/benzo use, i'd say. then people emulating the cadence of opiate users as well

Well to be honest 90% of the time a Finn speaks, he/she really doesn't want to speak.

I'd say that I'm not annoyed by vocal fry specifically, because I do use it. I am annoyed by the drawn out, falling intonation when mixed with vocal fry. It just grates on me when the last few syllables take more time that I expect them to

I think in terms of the Kardashian cocaine might be a cause .

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