{"id":42871,"date":"2015-12-10T14:26:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T19:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/?p=42871"},"modified":"2020-07-11T16:35:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T20:35:35","slug":"the-linguistic-tricks-of-youtube-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2015\/12\/10\/the-linguistic-tricks-of-youtube-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"The Linguistic Tricks of YouTube Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lead_960.jpg1449265582\" alt=\"Barracuda Studio \/ Shutterstock \/ Kara Gordon \/ The Atlantic\" width=\"960\" height=\"641\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barracuda Studio \/ Shutterstock \/ Kara Gordon \/ The Atlantic<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Regarding the linguistic tricks of YouTube stars: I&#8217;ve always noticed that the YouTube stars all have the same kind of enthusiastic, bouncy pitch. A linguist was asked about it. Here&#8217;s the story!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Naomi Baron is a professor of linguistics at American University who studies electronically mediated communication. She watched some videos that I sent her, and was very patient with my continued pleas of, \u201cNo, but I feel like something is going on here.\u201d And so here, thanks to Baron, are the linguistic components of YouTube voice:&#8221; from The Linguistic Tricks of YouTube Stars &#8211; The Atlantic via https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2015\/12\/the-linguistics-of-youtube-voice\/418962\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding the linguistic tricks of YouTube stars: I&#8217;ve always noticed that the YouTube stars all have the same kind of enthusiastic, bouncy pitch. A linguist was asked about it. Here&#8217;s the story!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[938],"class_list":{"0":"post-42871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-consulting","8":"tag-youtube","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20100413bullhorn.png?fit=496%2C496&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-b9t","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42993,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2016\/01\/07\/what-i-love-about-inkscape-cc-by-lemasney-152-in-2016\/","url_meta":{"origin":42871,"position":0},"title":"What I love about Inkscape cc-by lemasney (1\/52)","author":"lemsy","date":"2016-01-07","format":false,"excerpt":"Learn how to design your own original waveform tattoo with Inkscape, Audacity, and Linux! 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