To sound like a hockey player, speak like a Canadian

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To sound like a hockey player, speak like a *********

Andrew Bray, former UGA Ice Dawg, will present an investigation into ********* hockey players’ use of ********* English accents at the 186th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Here the University of Georgia takes on the University of Florida in the 2016 Savannah Tire Hockey Classic. Credit: University of Georgia Ice Dawgs

As a hockey player, Andrew Bray was familiar with the slang thrown around the “barn” (hockey arena). As a linguist, he wanted to understand how sport-specific jargon evolved and permeated across teams, regions, and countries. In pursuit of the sociolinguistic “biscuit” (puck), he faced an unexpected question.

“It was while conducting this initial study that I was asked a question that has since shaped the direction of my subsequent research,” said Bray. “‘Are you trying to figure out why the Americans sound like fake Canadians?'”

********* English dialects are stereotypically represented by the vowel pronunciation, or articulation, in words like “out” and “about,” borrowed British terms like “zed,” and the affinity for the tag question “eh?”

Bray, from the University of Rochester, presented an investigation into ********* hockey players’ use of ********* English accents May 16 at a ****** meeting of the

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, held May 13–17 at the Shaw Center located in downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Studying how hockey players talk required listening to them talk about hockey. To analyze unique vowel articulation and the vast collection of sport-specific slang terminology that players incorporated into their speech, Bray visited different professional teams to interview their *********-born players.

“In these interviews, I would ask players to discuss their career trajectories, including when and why they began playing hockey, the teams that they played for throughout their childhood, why they decided to pursue collegiate or major junior hockey, and their current lives as professionals,” said Bray. “The interview sought to get players talking about hockey for as long as possible.”

Bray found that ********* athletes borrow features of the ********* English accents, especially for hockey-specific terms and jargon, but do not follow the underlying rules behind the pronunciation, which could explain why the accent might sound “fake” to a *********.

“It is important to note that ********* hockey players are not trying to shift their speech to sound more *********,” said Bray. “Rather, they are trying to sound more like a hockey player.”

Players from Canada and northern ********* states with similar accents have historically dominated the sport. Adopting features of this dialect is a way hockey players can outwardly portray their identity through speech, called a linguistic persona. Many factors influence this persona, like age, gender expression, social category, and as Bray demonstrated, a sport.

Going forward, Bray plans to combine his recent work with his original quest to investigate if ********* English pronunciation and the hockey linguistic persona are introduced to ********* players through the sport’s signature slang.

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