Kulturraumstudien USA, Homework for October 23rd

For homework, please: 

watch these videos on US accents (the three parts total to about 35 minutes, so plan your viewing accordingly): 

Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents - (Part One) | WIRED - YouTube

Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents - (Part 2) | WIRED - YouTube

Accent Expert Gives a Tour of North American Accents - (Part 3) | WIRED - YouTube

Take some notes as you listen (no need to be comprehensive, but jot down some terms/details/historical information that interest(s) you) and see if you can place where some of the accents you hear in your favorite series (think characters whose accents stand out like Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory or Phoebe from Friends) are from. 

For those who want to geek out about dialectology, accents, and varieties further, here are some useful links: 

American Dialect Society

Language Log (upenn.edu)

Links of interest: 

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address (1933): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX_v0zxM23Q

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream" (1963): https://archive.org/details/MartinLutherKingIHaveADreamSpeech

Halle Berry's Oscars acceptance speech (2002): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llgL7mGYVTI

Steve Jobs' Stanford University commencement address (2005): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

Amanda Gorman "The Hill We Climb" (2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ055ilIiN4

Dr. Freeman Hrabowski III's decision to march with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Children's March: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or4TGPJzbGo

Malcolm X "God is Black" scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PycgpyPd9E