UK Accent Tour: Liverpool, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Newcastle & South Wales

Find out how UK accents sound different! Watch my other UK accent tour videos: 00:00 - Intro 00:28 - Liverpool & Merseyside 01:45 - Scotland 03:00 – Northern Ireland 03:47 – Newcastle & North East England 05:01 – South Wales 06:11 - Conclusion *Disclaimers and further information* 1. Some topics have been simplified for a general audience 2. People living in a particular place will not always sound the same. Not everyone from a certain area will have the same accent feature (or the feature to the same degree) as those in the video. Accents vary according to factors such as socioeconomic background, age and ethnicity (among others). 3. I have not shown all the accents in the UK. 4. Although I pronounce “brick” with a released stop plosive consonant, this is not the only way to pronounce it in my accent (Standard Southern British English). I can also pronounce “brick” with no audible release, with glottal reinforcement, or as an ejective. 5. /k/ may be realised as [x] in certain environments by some speakers in Merseyside. Another pronunciation would be [χ], which is more common after back vowels. Other pronunciations, such as [kx], may also be heard. 6. In certain environments, /p/ in North East England is often realised as a fully voiced segment with laryngealisation. More information can be found in Docherty, G. and Foulkes, P., 1999, August. Sociophonetic variation in ‘glottals’ in Newcastle English. In Proceedings of the 14th international congress of phonetic...