The argument made is accepted linguistic theory and is taught in all basic linguistics and phonetics courses anywhere in the world.He's right. In (synchronic) linguistic terms, there's no such thing as a 'neutral accent', since everyone has an accent. However, in sociolinguistic terms, a neutral accent is the prestigious accent of a community. The gentleman in the video is also using standard English, but has an Indian accent.
turnpikesurfer
You have terrible misconception of accent. Firstly, there is no such thing as a neutral accent.. What you are referring to is actually indian accent. The so called neutral is not certified by phonologists. Most importantly, this form of pronuniciation was developed by indians because they spoke with a lot regional language influence so to cover up that, neutral accent was formed and it is not a reliable thing but it can be used for local communication(India) but not with native speakers.
Anawas1970
So if you are in India and speaking Queens English and you are communicating with locals you are all speaking in a Neutral accent here if an American Speaks he has foreign accent. So there is no controversy here unless we want to fight over anything and every thing.
Neutral accent is Geographic specific, which means the way of pronouncing words in a set language in a set geographic location where the said group of population when speaking in a certain language sounds the same.English: Southern US has its own accent so does Eastern and Western US. Mostly Mid-Western English is considered easy to understand without any overt pronunciation of words.
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myspaceyourwish
The argument made is accepted linguistic theory and is taught in all basic linguistics and phonetics courses anywhere in the world.He's right. In (synchronic) linguistic terms, there's no such thing as a 'neutral accent', since everyone has an accent. However, in sociolinguistic terms, a neutral accent is the prestigious accent of a community.
The gentleman in the video is also using standard English, but has an Indian accent.
turnpikesurfer
You have terrible misconception of accent. Firstly, there is no such thing as a neutral accent.. What you are referring to is actually indian accent. The so called neutral is not certified by phonologists. Most importantly, this form of pronuniciation was developed by indians because they spoke with a lot regional language influence so to cover up that, neutral accent was formed and it is not a reliable thing but it can be used for local communication(India) but not with native speakers.
Anawas1970
So if you are in India and speaking Queens English and you are communicating with locals you are all speaking in a Neutral accent here if an American Speaks he has foreign accent.
So there is no controversy here unless we want to fight over anything and every thing.
Neutral accent is Geographic specific, which means the way of pronouncing words in a set language in a set geographic location where the said group of population when speaking in a certain language sounds the same.English: Southern US has its own accent so does Eastern and Western US. Mostly Mid-Western English is considered easy to understand without any overt pronunciation of words.
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