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Truespel Phoneme Analysis of US Street Talk Accent vs Dictionary Pronunciation

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US Street English is spoken at this YouTube site, "English for Everyone," designed to show tonality, but  also shows typical US English street talk pronunciation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpplGqZ3OSY  

I compare the truespel converter (dictionary accent) for these 10 sentences to my phonetic interpretation of the street talk here and examine the differences.  See listed differences below.  Many are pronunciation shortcuts between words.

 

Results show 31 phoneme differences in the 79 words of 10 sentences with many evolving the ~t sound either glottalized or dropped.   See truespel phonetics differences counted below for the 10 sentences spoken in the above link compared in truespel between dictionary and street talk.  At bottom is a phoneme listing.

 

Dict   1 Hie Miek. Mister and Misiz Gaanzzaalez aar mueveeng in nekst weekend.

Street 1 Hie Miek.  Mister en Misiz Gaanzzaalis aa mueveeng in neks weeken.

                                         1 2                           3    4                           5             6

Dict   2  Graet.  Wut due yue waant mee tue due?

Street 2 Grae‘.  Wu due yue waan’ mee tu due?

                              7                     8           9         

Dict   3  Ie waant yue tue paent thu hous.

Street 3 Ie waan’ yue du paen’ thu hous.

                       10     1112     13

Dict   4 Wen due yue waant mee tue paent thu houz?

Street 4 Wen due yue waan’ mee tu paen’ thu hous?

                                          14        15      16

Dict 5  Ie waant yue tue paent thu hous tummaaroe

Street 5 Ie waan chu  tu paen’ thu hous tummaaroe

                     17 18 19 20    21     

Dict 6   Due yue noe a good handeeman?

Street 6 Due yue noe a good handeeman?

 

Dict 7  Mie frend iz good at fikseeng thheengz.

Street 7  Mie frend iz good a’ fikseeng thheengz.

                                           22

Dict 8  Duz hee waant tue maek sum ekstru munee?

Street 8 Duz hee waanu maek sum ekstru munee?

                                 23 24

Dict  9   Sher.  Ie ken ask him.

Street 9 Sher.  Ie kin ask im.

                            25        26

Dict 10   Ie waant him tue fiks thu toilit and thu seenk.

Street 10  Ie waan im tu fiks thu toilit en thu seenk.

                          27 28 29                 30 31  

 

Phoneme Counts

Using my  Auto-Count truespel spreadsheet shows that:

1  Dictionary (+) had far more ~t sounds (15)

2  Street (-) had far more ~u sounds (8)

3  Street had fewer sounds overall (19)

 

 Dict - Street   Dict-Street
Phonemes Dictionary Street Talk difference absol value 
Totals = 248 229 19 49
~t 24 9 15 15
~u 11 19 -8 8
~ue 16 9 7 7
~a 7 4 3 3
~i 10 13 -3 3
~d 12 10 2 2
~h 9 7 2 2
~s 11 13 -2 2
~z 6 4 2 2
~ch 0 1 -1 1
~r 5 4 1 1
~y 5 4 1 1
~ie 7 6 1 1
~e 7 8 -1 1
~mm 1 1 0 0
~zz 1 1 0 0
~sh 1 1 0 0
~th 5 5 0 0
~thh 1 1 0 0
~zh 0 0 0 0
~b 0 0 0 0
~f 3 3 0 0
~g 7 7 0 0
~j 0 0 0 0
~k 10 10 0 0
~l 2 2 0 0
~m 13 13 0 0
~n 26 26 0 0
~p 3 3 0 0
~v 1 1 0 0
~w 9 9 0 0
~aa 10 10 0 0
~ae 5 5 0 0
~au 0 0 0 0
~air 0 0 0 0
~ee 10 10 0 0
~er 2 2 0 0
~oo 2 2 0 0
~oe 2 2 0 0
~oi 1 1 0 0
~ou 3 3 0 0
~or 0 0 0 0
Totals = 248 229 19 49