# Steven Nelson
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steven nelson (born January 22, 1993) is an American football cornerback for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Oregon State.
== Early years ==
Nelson attended Northside High School in Warner Robins, Georgia.
Nine Innings In: Stephen Nelson on Calling Dodgers Games and What Baseball Sounds Like
Stephen Nelson calls Dodgers games on SportsNet LA. On Nine Innings In, he talks about the sounds of the game, the 2005 White Sox, and cotton candy skies.
When Sounds Change: Assimilation in American English (Part 1)
Why does have to sometimes sound like haf-ta? Why can supposed to sound more like suppose-ta?
In this episode of The Accent Journey, we explore the first of two episodes on assimilation in connected American English, the natural processes that cause neighboring sounds to influence one another durin…
Didja Hear That? Assimilation in American English (Part 2)
Why does did you sometimes sound like didja? Why can could you sound like couldja? And why does don't you sometimes sound like don-chu?
In this episode of The Accent Journey, we continue our exploration of assimilation in connected American English. We look at how neighboring sounds influence one a…
What IS Syllable Stress Exactly? (Hint: It's Four Things Happening at Once...)
When your English word stress sounds "off," the problem may not be the location of the stress. You may simply be missing one of the ingredients that makes a stressed syllable stand out.
In this episode of The Accent Journey, we take a closer look at four important cues that contribute to English st…
Find the Point: Why Everything Gets Quieter After the Main Stress
In this episode of The Accent Journey, we explore post-focus compression - the tendency for speech after the main focus of a sentence to become quieter, flatter, and less prominent.
The goal isn't to make the rest of the sentence disappear. Instead, reducing the prominence of the words after the ma…
The Tongue That Never Touches: Building the American R from Scratch
The American English /r/ can be one of the most challenging sounds for English learners — especially if your native language uses a tapped or rolled R.
But here's the key: the American R isn't made by touching the roof of your mouth.
In this episode, we break down how to build the American /r/ from…
Make the Small Words Small: Reducing Function Words in American English
As we've discussed previously on the podcast, in natural American English not every word receives the same amount of stress.
Content words usually carry the main message, while small grammatical words such as to, for, of, than, and as are often reduced and spoken with less prominence.
This episode …
The Dark L You (Probably) Didn't Know About: Why Milk, Feel, and Cold Sound Different
In this episode of The Accent Journey, we take a closer look at the American English dark L /l/ - the version of L you hear in words like milk, feel, cold, and help.
Many English learners are familiar with the clear or “light” L at the beginning of words like lip and lake, but the L sound can chang…
The Syllabic L: When L Becomes a Syllable
In this episode of The Accent Journey, we take the dark L from the previous episode one step further and look at syllabic /l/—the L sound that can actually function as the center of a syllable.
You'll hear it in common words such as:
little
bottle
middle
candle
people
simple
table
possible
comfort…
REcord or reCORD? The Stress Pattern That Can Change a Word's Meaning
In this episode of The Accent Journey, we look at two-syllable words that change their stress depending on whether they are used as nouns or verbs.
You’ll learn why we say REcord as a noun but reCORD as a verb, PREsent as a noun but preSENT as a verb, and SUSpect as a noun but susPECT as a verb.
We…
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