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What Can We Know about Shakespeare's Own Accent?

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Reading the Lord's Prayer in English, 1124 - 2024

12:15

Learn Old English through story (w. Dr. Colin Gorrie)

1:20:34

The Hard Problem of Consciousness Solved?

47:23

Ulster (North of Ireland) Pronunciation with Professor John Harris

1:08:59

Announcing Some Upcoming Film Projects

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Neutral Monism - A Little Critique

In a follow-up to my video about Graziano's Attention Schema Theory, I present an alternative hypothesis, and some criticisms of it. Neutral monism proposes that the fundamental stuff of physics has both a mechanistic, relational aspect (how particles behave) and a subjective, qualitative aspect (what particles are like, in and of themselves).
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What Can We Know about Shakespeare's Own Accent?

28:55

What Can We Know about Shakespeare's Own Accent?

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In this video, I explore the limits of how far we can reconstruct the personal accent of William Shakespeare. Reconstructing an individual person's accent is impossible unless they left explicit phonetic descriptions or an audio recording, but reconstructing broad trends in regional accents is a lot easier - so in this video, I aim for a Warwickshire accent that a speaker living in Shakespeare'...

Reading the Lord's Prayer in English, 1124 - 2024

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Reading the Lord's Prayer in English, 1124 - 2024

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In this video, I read the same text (the Lord's Prayer) in historical stages of a southeastern English accent, from very late Old English (Anglo-Saxon) through Middle English and Early Modern English. Just for fun, I also project it further and guess, based on ongoing sound changes, what the accent might sound like in another 100 years (although that part is completely speculative, of course). ...

Learn Old English through story (w. Dr. Colin Gorrie)

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Learn Old English through story (w. Dr. Colin Gorrie)

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In this video, I had the privilege of talking to Dr. Colin Gorrie of the Ancient Language Institute, who I had admired from afar for at least a year but had an email exchange with a few months ago about his upcoming book. 'Ōsweald Bera' ('Osweald Bear') is a story that uses comprehensible input to build up the reader's understanding of Old English gradually, until they are reading complex prose...

The Hard Problem of Consciousness Solved?

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The Hard Problem of Consciousness Solved?

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In this video, I outline Michael Graziano's Attention Schema Theory (AST), a more detailed account of how consciousness - and our idea that there is a 'hard problem' of consciousness - might arise entirely from neural computations. This is the first theory of consciousness that I have felt genuinely satisfied by, and there is a lot more to learn about it if you want to follow this video up by l...

Ulster (North of Ireland) Pronunciation with Professor John Harris

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Ulster (North of Ireland) Pronunciation with Professor John Harris

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In this video, I was fortunate enough to talk to Professor John Harris about the phonology of Ulster English. Professor Harris is from Belfast and has worked on Irish English in the past, but his work spans a wide range of topics in phonology and phonetics. The last video with previews of some upcoming films: ua-cam.com/video/YwVC-HZpv8Q/v-deo.html This channel's Patreon (thank you to anybody w...

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Announcing Some Upcoming Film Projects

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In this video, I go over some of the film projects that myself and some close friends will be releasing in the next few months, including 'Living Memory' (a historically-set eight-part series), 'I Hear Jazz in Central Park' (a short film set in New York), and 'The Mystery of the Romans' (a feature film set in 2020s Britain). Our mailing list can be found at the bottom of this page on our websit...

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Why Are Sound Changes Systematic?

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In this video, I explore why historical sound changes (including current, ongoing ones) are systematic, applying in 'symmetrical' ways across the entire set of sounds, rather than being isolated to particular words. I take an abstract neurological perspective, explaining how a system like the human brain could maintain the integrity of the phonological system without individual speakers being a...

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Why Do Sound Changes Have Exceptions?

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In this video, I discuss some of the reasons why conditioned sound changes sometimes have exceptions, using both modern and historical examples. Thank you very much to my friend Scott Burchell for teaching me how to do the film emulation that I used in the 'skit' at the end. This channel's Patreon (thank you very much to anybody who donates): www.patreon.com/simonroper

1970s vs. 2020s Southeastern English Speech

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1970s vs. 2020s Southeastern English Speech

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In this video, I compare the speech of Margaret Wilkins (born c.1935) to my own (born c.1998), picking up on some aspects of 1970s speech which I'd say have become rarer, at least in this part of the country, since then. Mrs Wilkins was recorded as part of a 1974 television series called 'The Family', which sought to document ordinary working-class family life at the time in a naturalistic and ...

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Is Everyone Conscious in the Same Way?

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In this video, I explore some of the possible reasons for debates or discussions about consciousness breaking down. I postulate that major differences in the form of people's conscious experiences might lead to people talking past each other during discussions about consciousness. This channel's Patreon (thank you to anybody who donates): www.patreon.com/simonroper

Old English Pronunciation: A Comprehensive Reconstruction

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Old English Pronunciation: A Comprehensive Reconstruction

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In this long video, I try to cover almost all elements of Old English pronunciation, and how the phonetics of the language are reconstructed by historical linguists. Naturally, as it is only preserved in written form, plenty of things are uncertain - here, I try to make clear where we are quite sure about things, and where we are unsure. I use a ground-up approach and try to take fairly few thi...

A Conversation with Dave Huxtable about the Origins of US and UK English

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A Conversation with Dave Huxtable about the Origins of US and UK English

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In this video, Dave Huxtable and I discuss the divergence between American and British English (in their many forms). The other half of this conversation is on Dave's channel at this link: ua-cam.com/video/lzH_b3bsQDY/v-deo.html&