An otherworldly language: non-literary Russian, speech acoustics and rap phonetics
summary
Examines changes in contemporary Russian through recordings from the 1930s and modern music (including rap) to analyze non-standard, colloquial Russian and debate perceived threats to the language. Covers Russian dialects (their sound qualities and persistence) and acoustic speech analysis, including speech recognition and synthesis methods and how linguists read acoustic spectra, explaining why acoustic physics matters for humanities research.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:54Non-literary Russian
- 10:13Evolution of Russian
- 16:17Speech and dialects
- 22:01Dialect phonetics
- 28:02Vowel reduction
- 35:13Music language revolution
- 42:08Dialects as language
- 45:42Language variability
- 46:47Q&A
