Episode 24: Live!
Recorded at the 2011 VASTA Conference in Chicago IL at Roosevelt University, Phil and Eric take the show to their audience. It\u2019s a \u201cshow about the show\u201d where we talk about the magic behind the curtain, topic choices, and we take questions from our studio audience. Though we don\u2019t spend much time on the sounds of speech, we do have a great time taking \u201ccalls\u201d from our friends. In the second half we spend quite a lot of time on the subject of GenAm, Standard speech and Neutral speech, whatever they may be...
Topics include: The impetus for the show; the set up for the show; recording, editing, planning; audio sync issues; lo-fi recording strategies; So-Called-General-American (SCGA); Standard accents; separating phonetics, phonology, prescription; \u201csounds are not good, they are good for...;\u201d our response to a \u2018neutral\u2019 accent.