Chat with Rhea Dawn - goats, emus and the truth about Aussie English

🎧 What do goats, glottals, and growing up multidialectal have in common? Find out in this lively chat with Rhea Dawn!

Rhea Dawn is a fantastic phonetician, linguist and YouTuber from the outback of Western Australia. We got together to share our passion for noises and accents and to generally have a bit of banter.

We dive into the wonderful world of phonetics, chatting about “r” sounds, consonant clusters, and what it’s like growing up speaking multiple dialects. Rhea shares their love of language, how they navigate different varieties of English, and why linguistic quirks are worth celebrating.

🗣 Topics include:

Rhotic vs non-rhotic R’s
Multidialectal childhoods
Playing with pronunciation
The beauty of language variation
💬 Join the convo in the comments—what’s your favourite weird or wonderful sound?

00:00 Intro
00:48 How did you get into phonetics
01:45 New developments in Australian English Pronunciation - FACE diphthong
04:59 TRAP raising
06:47 TRAP BATH split and code switching
08:27 Autralian linguistcs ignores most of the country
10:09 HOLY/WHOLLY merger
11:59 Accent research tools
14:09 Sense of direction
16:06 Can, can, span and span
18:09 Styles of linguistics videos on YouTube
20:02 Candid recordings and storytelling
21:44 William Labov
23:33 Multicultural Australian English
25:03 Conlangs and Emus
28:23 Gender and terms of address in English
31:23 The truth about Australia
36:47 Outro

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