Another phonological alteration that shaped the nature of the Attic dialect featured the contraction of vowels in certain contexts ... the Aeolic Greek dialect exhibited a distinctive pattern of ...

He cautions that he hasn’t done a real computer analysis in which he would, say, measure the length and volume of vowel sounds, but his ear for North Carolina accents is still pretty good.

Dialogue scenes are often quiet, dreamy, melancholic, and there’s no involved choreography. It’s hard not to find the more RP accents of some of the cast jarring against the German setting for some ...