“When you said keep, did you feel a breath of air on your finger?” She asked. “If you put your finger in front of your mouth, I'll teach you a very quick phonology lesson,” Baron said. Take the word “fascinatingly” from this Vlogbrothers video as an example.Īspiration: This was the part of our phone call where things got interactive. (See: every time Rugnetta says “magic,” or when Ryan Higa says “ channel.”)įor that matter, long consonants as well: Especially those at the beginning of words. But sometimes in these videos the vowels are just sliiightly longer than normal (see what I did there?), resulting in the kind of emphasis and “bounce” I wasn’t able to put my finger on until Baron pointed it out to me. Long vowels: Stretching out vowels is a common way of emphasizing words-sometimes it’s obvious, and clearly done on purpose (listen to the word “five” in this Franchesca Ramsey video). There’s a name for this: epenthetic vowel.” “It elongates the word, it adds an extra syllable to the word, it emphasizes the word. “Terraping.” “I’ve added a little vowel between the t and the r,” Baron says. ![]() Sneaky extra vowels between consonants: Listen to the way Rugnetta says “trapping” at 35 seconds here. “If I say ‘eh-xactly,’ you have the sound ‘eh,’ like in the word ‘bet.’” ![]() For example: “If I say the word ‘exactly,’ you don’t really know what that first vowel is. (Hear it pronounced here.) When you make the effort to actually pronounce a vowel that is usually a schwa, that’s a way of emphasizing the word. Overstressed vowels: A lot of the time, people are lazy about pronouncing certain vowels-they’re un-emphasized and neutral, and just sort of hang loosely in the middle of the mouth, making an “euh” sound, regardless of which vowel it actually is. She watched some videos that I sent her, and was very patient with my continued pleas of, “No, but I feel like something is going on here.” And so here, thanks to Baron, are the linguistic components of YouTube voice: Naomi Baron is a professor of linguistics at American University who studies electronically mediated communication. This Game of Thrones fan-theory guy does it.ĭear Therapist: Why Won’t My Boyfriend Propose to Me? Lori Gottliebīut I had a hard time putting my finger on exactly what “it” was, beyond a vague sense of similarity. Hannah Hart of My Drunk Kitchen does it (when she’s not drinking, or using weird voices). I found more examples in other popular YouTube channels. The only word that came to mind was … bouncy. It wasn’t a matter of their accents, or the sound of their voices, it was the way they were talking. ![]() The Vlogbrothers are John and Hank Green, and their combined YouTube channel, on which they post videos of themselves musing on and explaining everything from world politics to farts, has more than 2 million subscribers.Īnd the guy in the PBS Ronbledore video-Mike Rugnetta-was talking just like the Green brothers do. So the other day, I was watching this YouTube video from the PBS Idea Channel about whether Ron Weasley from Harry Potter is really a time-traveling Dumbledore (as you do), and I realized-the guy talking sounds exactly like the Vlogbrothers. And today I want to talk about YouTube voice.
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