Kayden Kross's accent?

[erotica_n_s]

Was watching an interview from years ago… Lydia Lee interviewing Kayden Kross…

Kross states she grew up in Sacramento…

I couldn’t help noticing the way she pronounced certain consonants, particularly the “t” sound, did not sound typically American?

I mean, I’ve watched a fair amount of US entertainment (including movies and TV shows, etc.) and I’ve noticed that in US English, the “t” sound is usually either barely articulated (e.g. what we in Britain would pronounce as “twenty”, you guys would probably pronounce as “twenny” with the “t” being only barely uttered, if at all), or turned almost into a “d” sound (e.g. what we in Britain would pronounce as “eighty” you guys would probably pronounce as “eigh(d)y”).

I couldn’t help noticing Kayden’s pronunciation of the “t” sounded a little unusual for a North American speaker – I mean, she seemed to be pronouncing it the "British" way – a neat, sharp "t" sound – but then again, maybe it’s just a regional American accent that – for whatever reason – just happens not to be particularly well-known/well-heard outside of North America…

The other possibility, I wondered… does it suggest an upper socioeconomic class background? (I mean, here in the U.K., to some degree, you can tell what socioeconomic class a person belongs to by, among other things, their manner of speaking, including the way the pronounce certain vowels/diphthongs).

And of course, the other thing I did wonder about was maybe Kayden spent some significant length of time living on this side of the Atlantic?

 

[SweetErika]

Your link is fucked up, but I got to the interview and she sounds American.

You're right, it's unusual for Americans to enunciate some sounds like "t" when they're not at the beginning of words. However, I'm one of those oddball Americans: many people have always commented on how I clearly enunciate the "t" sound specifically, especially in words like "cotton" and "buttons" (and, yes, "twenTy" as well). I believe my mom does the same, although not as crisply/obviously as I do.

The wikipedia article on Kross notes she's described herself as a high school "book nerd" and she graduated from California State University. Education has a lot to do with how we speak, as does socioeconomic status. I'm guessing she grew up in a middle or upper middle class family (probably not upper class, since she started stripping at 18, but it's not outside the realm of possibility). That and/or she has just trained herself to speak well via her education. Maybe she was interested in acting and did some speech training or something. She likely had at least one primary caregiver who enunciated clearly and/or perhaps her caregiver was British or Canadian.

It doesn't seem like there's much biographical info on her before her stripper and acting/porn days, which makes it hard to tell what factors into the way she speaks, but even more info may not answer why her enunciation of certain consonants is unusual for an American. Like I said, I'm more proof that some Americans do speak the same way.

 

[Derroreaper]

My sister talks that way too. She had a speech impediment when she was young, and part of fixing it involved proper enunciation (SP?)