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Good American Speech
20th-century consciously learned American accent
Good American Speech
Good American Speech, a Mid-Atlantic accent, or a Transatlantic accent is a consciously learned accent of English that was promoted in certain American courses on acting, voice, and elocution from the early to mid-20th century. As a result, it has become associated with particular announcers and Hollywood actors, most of whose work dates from the 1920s through the 1950s. This speaking style was largely influenced by and overlapped with Northeastern elite accents from that era and earlier. Out of conflation of the two types of accents, both have become commonly known as Mid-Atlantic or Transatlantic accents. Proponents of such accents additionally incorporated features from Received Pronunciation, the prestige accent of British English, in an effort to make them sound like they transcended regional and even national borders. During the early half of the 20th century, Mid-Atlantic classroom speech was designed, codified, and advocated by certain phoneticians and teachers in the U.S., linguistic...
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