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Standard New York Dialect
New York Dialect: Placement
New York Dialect: Visualization
New York Dialect: Pitch
New York Dialect: Short O
New York Dialect: Short O When A
New York Dialect: Short O Practice
New York Dialect: Voiced & Voiceless
New York Dialect: Long I
New York Dialect: Long I Practice
New York Dialect: Broad AW
New York Dialect: Broad AW Practice
New York Dialect: Short A
New York Dialect: Short A Practice
New York Dialect: Simple R Drops
New York Dialect: Simple R Drop Practice
New York Dialect: Pushed R Drops
New York Dialect: Pushed R Drop Practice
New York Dialect: Pushed R Drops After A
New York Dialect: Pushed R Drops After A Practice
New York Dialect: Hard R
New York Dialect: Hard R Practice
New York Dialect: ER to OI
New York Dialect: ER to OI Practice
New York Dialect: Medial T
New York Dialect: ING Endings
Summary: The R sounds drops out after vowel sounds in words for New Yorkers. Learn how to speak in a New York dialect in this free video.
Tracy Goodwin has a master’s in corporate communication and 10 years experience in professional speaking. Recipient of numerous public speaking awards and is a college professor of...read more
"Okay, you've learned the vowels. Now we're ready to move on. And the first thing we're going to talk about is simple "R" drops. And in many words New Yorker's tend to, they don't always do it; well they always do it, but they tend to do it after a vowel sound sometimes, and that is drop the "R" sound. So in a word like "mother", you and I would say "mother", they would say "motha", the "R" just disappears. We would say "cheerful", they would say "cheeful". So the "R" just doesn't exist anymore, and it primarily follows a vowel. In the word "cheerful" you've got a vowel, so it becomes "cheeful". "Mother", you've got an "er", so it becomes "motha". And I'm going to give you a drill in just a minute on a lot of words where you've got a vowel and then you drop that "R". And this is going to sound real familiar to you, this is what's going to start making this sound like a New York dialect."
eHow Article: New York Dialect: Simple R Drops
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