Received Pronunciation 3

Paul Meier

Demonstrating the Received Pronunciation dialect of English is Paul Meier, IDEA’s founder and director. British-born and raised, but resident in the United States for much of his adult life, he is a professor emeritus of voice, speech, dialects, and heightened text at the University of Kansas. He trained at the Rose Bruford School of Speech and Drama and holds a first-class Certificate of Proficiency from the International Phonetic Association. He is a dialect coach for theatre and film, and is the author of Accents & Dialects for Stage and Screen. Paul reads Comma Gets a Cure. Contrast this with his General American dialect reading of this same passage.

For more information on this dialect, see Paul’s Received Pronunciation dialect manual.

Watch Paul’s video demonstration of the dialect: