Wombat Country Twang

A Study of Environmental Influence on Speech : Phonetic Shifts & Latin Character Encoding

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SONGLINE: Brian Boru - The Ginger Wombat

YER: Wombatistan

pronunciation, turkic [ğ], cultural stereotypes, language encoding

00010 brian boru | 0:53 | 26 Nov 2020

This video documents the emergence of a distinctive country twang following a relocation to Wombatistan. There was a need to examine whether this vocal shift was due to cultural stereotypes associated with country life or if it stemmed from the environmental factors of the new location. Another element, was noticing how it felt like a return to Turkic phonetic influences and it was as though the land was encouraging this in some intangible way. This is what inspired the exploration of speech phonetics, by using the Latin characters as they were adopted in Turkish, revealing how identical written symbols can encode different sounds across languages. This analysis sits as a footnote, to examine the interaction between language, environment, and phonetic representation.

~ My Name Is Ayça, get used to it

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