12: The Printing Press and the Great Vowel Shift

01/05/15 • 24 min

What explains the difference between English and American accents? On this episode of Reasonably Sound, Mike Rugnetta explains that this spoken phenomenon starts with the written word. -- On American versus English Spelling -- Why Do Brits and Americans Spell Words Differently? http://www.livescience.com/33844-british-american-word-spelling.html Americanize, Anglicise: Why Do Brits And Yanks Spell Words Differently? http://io9.gizmodo.com/americanize-anglicise-why-do-brits-and-yanks-spell-wo-1671334487 Present Day American Spelling from The Cambridge History of the English Language, Volume 6 https://books.google.com/books?id=ia5tHVtQPn8C&pg=PA352&dq=american+and+english+spelling+differences&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KmWtVNOoEoLksATGpoDgCg&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=american%20and%20english%20spelling%20differences&f=false -- Main Sources for this Episode -- A History of the English Language by Elly van Gelderen http://www.historyofenglish.net/ Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction by Kristin Denham, Anne Lobeck http://www.cengagebrain.com/shop/ISBN/1413015891?cid=GB1 Why Do Americans and Brits Have Different Accents? http://www.livescience.com/33652-americans-brits-accents.html When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents? http://mentalfloss.com/article/29761/when-did-americans-lose-their-british-accents Received Pronunciation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation -- Previous version of this episode contained -- - Hudson Cycle – Nico Muhly - I’m Afraid of Americans (V1) – David Bowie - Americans – Oneohtrix Point Never - Paper Crumpling R – Sesame Street - Messages Received – Cabaret Voltaire

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10: Auditory Illusions

Mike Rugnetta would like to talk with you about auditory illusions (not tricks), specifically the Shepard tone and binaural beats. Use your headphones for this one. (ALSO: art school college story time!) The submarine film soundtrack work Mike mentions is here: https://mikerugnetta.bandcamp.com/track/guitar-shephard-tone Sources: - Demonstration 27 – Circularity in Pitch Judgment http://asa.aip.org/demo27.html - Scelsi: Cello Music (review) http://www.medieval.org/music/modern/scelsi/cello.html

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13: Shopworn Sound Effects

Mike takes you on a tour of the most commonly heard sound effects. And fair warning, when you hear them on this episode, you’ll start hearing them EVERYWHERE. Plus, Mike tells you why sides of beef and planks of wood were integral to the making of the Rocky movies. -- Sources-- Audio-Vision by Michel Chion In Search of a Concrete Music by Pierre Schaeffer The Wilhelm Scream by Elena Passarello 10 Ridiculously Overused Movie Sound Effects http://whatculture.com/film/10-ridiculously-overused-movie-sound-effects.php * The Creaky Gate * What is this sound effect I keep hearing? http://ask.metafilter.com/150543/What-is-this-sound-effect-I-keep-hearing Stock Sound Effects on TV Tropes http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StockSoundEffects Where Else Have I Heard That? http://ask.metafilter.com/125872/Where-else-have-I-heard-that * Police Dispatcher * Why do movies & TV use this police radio clip over and over? http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/19768/why-do-movies-tv-use-this-police-radio-clip-over-and-over Stock Sounds: Police Station from SimCity 3000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dklA4-ACN4k&t=26 * The Diddy Laugh * Diddy Kong Racing Intro http://diddy%20kong%20racing%20intro/ Steve Pagets Diddy Laugh YouTube Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvs58Hl92VaqqJwxaSzF6A2m1605VdLaf Steve Paget’s Diddy Laugh Blog http://diddylaugh.blogspot.com/ * The Wilhelm Scream * Wilhelm – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3-Y8eTaMZc Where Did the Wilhelm Scream Come From and Why Do So Many Filmmakers Use It? http://mentalfloss.com/article/60236/where-did-wilhelm-scream-come-and-why-do-so-many-filmmakers-use-it Hollywood Lost and Found http://hollywoodlostandfound.net/wilhelm/index.html Way, Way, Way Too Many Wilhelm Screams http://createdigitalmusic.com/2011/04/way-way-way-too-many-wilhelm-screams/ * Castle Thunder * Castle Thunder Compilation on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q79HMmZ4qNc Hollywood Lost and Found http://www.hollywoodlostandfound.net/sound/castlethunder.html Castle Thunder Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_thunder_%28sound_effect%29 Frankenstein (1931) Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein_(1931_film) -- Responses to RS’s Episode on Accents -- “...did you know that the greater diversity in accents in England is a result of a principle in linguistics?” http://mikerugnetta.tumblr.com/post/107612425165/regarding-your-latest-episode-of-reasonably-sound via erherr http://erherr.tumblr.com/ “Fred Armisen Gives Five-Minute Improvised Master Class in NYC Accents” http://gawker.com/fred-armisen-gives-five-minute-improvised-master-class-1662583152 via @sophiebiblio https://twitter.com/sophiebiblio/status/555431319229169665 Sean Monahan’s video on the Pennsylvanian/Mid-Atlantic Accent https://www.youtube.com/user/smonahan09/videos via @sophiebiblio https://twitter.com/sophiebiblio/status/555431110600302592 “Thoughts on Accents! Class! And Self-Presentation! (AKA Fashion! Turn to the Left!)” http://tinyletter.com/TwoBossyDames/letters/weekend-special-errata-addenda-ugh-mea-culpa via Two Bossy Dames http://www.tinyletter.com/TwoBossyDames -- Previous version of this episode contained -- Wilhelms Scream – James Blake Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz – Mr. Bungle Colony – Mason Android Park Tracks (Tall Bodies) – Chelsea Wolf