How YouTubers' voices evolve, with Andrew Cheng
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Mignon Fogarty, Inc.
4.5 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
1080. Linguist Andrew Cheng explains why people’s accents shift over time, especially when they move—and how YouTubers make perfect data subjects. If you've ever cringed at your old voice recordings, this one’s for you.
Andrew Cheng is a professor of linguistics at the University of Hawaii. You can find him on Bluesky at LinguistAndrew.
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| 0:40.6 | Greetings, Gramer Pellusians. I am here with Andrew Jung, a professor of linguistics at the |
| 0:46.2 | University of Hawaii in Honolulu. We just finished our conversation about language in movies, |
| 0:52.2 | which was just fascinating. If you haven't heard the main show yet, |
| 0:55.2 | head over there and listen to that first. |
| 0:56.7 | It was great. |
| 0:58.2 | But Andrew has done also a study. |
| 1:00.7 | He's looked at some YouTubers and how their dialects |
| 1:03.4 | have changed over time and when they moved. |
| 1:05.5 | And so we're going to talk about that today. |
| 1:07.7 | Andrew Jung, welcome to the Grammar Pellusia segment of the Grammar Girl |
| 1:11.7 | Podcast. Thank you. It's so exciting and exclusive. Yes, very exclusive. There's a velvet |
| 1:17.2 | rope at the digital velvet rope somehow. So this paper that you did is about second |
| 1:26.0 | dialect acquisition, which sounds very academic. |
| 1:29.5 | So, but it's actually really interesting. So can you explain what you mean by that? |
| 1:33.7 | Yeah. It just means that you maybe speak one dialect of a language and then at some point in your |
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