Do choirs have accents?

每个人都知道唱诗班有一个“声音”，从唱诗班到摇滚唱诗班，从教堂到社区。在语言和音乐上，合唱的声音和口音是什么样的？它是如何从导演、唱诗班成员的口音或两者中浮现出来的？它会随着时间而改变吗？听众如何评价合唱的口音？每周都有数百万人参加合唱团，合唱团是一项重要的职业活动。这将是第一个研究合唱表演这一鲜为人知的核心方面的项目，通过开展一系列相关的实证研究，以语言科学、社会语言学、音乐学和音乐表演为基础。

Everyone knows choirs have a 'sound', from choral societies to rock choirs, chapel to community. What is the choral sound-accent like, linguistically and musically? How does it emerge, from the director, the choir members' spoken accents, or both? Does it change over time? How do listeners evaluate choral accents? Millions of people take part in choirs every week, and choirs constitute a major professional activity. This will be the first project to investigate this poorly-understood, yet core, aspect of choral performance, by carrying out a linked set of empirical studies, grounded in speech science, sociolinguistics, musicology and musical performance.