Audio file
Contributors
Date Recorded
1982-04-16
Date Digitized
2024
Genre
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Physical Location
Original cassette held by UPEI Archives and Special Collections
Duration
01:33:04
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
00:00 Introduction from O'Hare

00:30 Introduction from O'Grady

06:30 Pratt begins speaking

08:30 Discussion of phonetics; voiced and voiceless consonants

11:00 Discussion of vowels

12:00 Discussion of dipthongs

15:00 Discussion of the mouth-location of vowels

16:00 Discussion of 'Canadian raising'

18:00 Discussion of 'island rounding'

21:00 Example of a speaker with island rounding

24:00 Discussion of the prevalence of island rounding

26:00 Discussion of a field work project conducted by Pratt and his students

29:00 Discussion of words unique to PEI

30:00 Further discussion of the field work

34:30 Discussion of results from the field work

01:03:00 Gap in audio

01:04:30 Audio resumes

01:06:00 End of Pratt's lectures; beginning of question period; question regarding the dialect of the researchers

01:06:30 Question regarding voiceless /n/

01:08:30 Comment on class patterns with regards to dialect

01:09:00 Question regarding statistical pattern of findings

01:09:30 Question regarding those who scored zero in the findings

01:11:00 Question regarding voiced /z/ and unvoiced /s/

01:12:00 Question regarding the effects of Irish background on dialect

01:12:30 Comment on on /ou/ sounds

01:14:00 Question regarding how "Canadian English" is established as a concept

01:16:00 Question regarding the prevalence of island rounding

01:16:30 Question regarding vowel raising

01:17:00 Comment on the disappearance of distinctly Maritime accents

01:18:30 Comment on the effects of television on the French language

01:19:00 Question regarding the extent to which language is a choice

01:20:00 Question regarding methodology for vowel sounds

01:22:00 Question regarding the next step for research

01:23:00 Comment on Islanders perceptions of their accent

01:23:30 Comment on methodology of the study

01:26:00 Comment on studying Newfoundland English; question on a curve for education and occupation

01:28:30 Question regarding settled communities vs those in rural areas

01:32:00 Closing remarks from O'Hare