Rhythm And Intonation Of American English
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Intonation, Accent and Rhythm
Author | : Dafydd Gibbon |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2011-11-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110863235 |
The Intonation of American English
Author | : Kenneth Lee Pike |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Intelligibility, Oral Communication, and the Teaching of Pronunciation
Author | : John M. Levis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2018-10-04 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1108416624 |
An intelligibility-based approach to teaching that presents pronunciation as critical, yet neglected, in communicative language teaching.
Pronouncing American English
Author | : Gertrude F. Orion |
Publisher | : Heinle & Heinle Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9780838463345 |
This second edition provides extensive activities to help college-bound students develop clear speech and appropriate intonation. -- Vowels, consonants, stress, and intonation -- Recognition and production activities -- Paired communicative practice -- Sounds in isolation, sentences, dialogues, and rhymes
English Speech Rhythm and the Foreign Learner
Author | : Corinne Adams |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9789027977168 |
No detailed description available for "English Speech Rhythm and the Foreign Learner".
A Handbook For English Language Laboratories
Author | : Suresh Kumar |
Publisher | : Cambridge India |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2007-04-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 8175964952 |
With increased awareness among students and teachers about the importance of developing English language skills and communication skills, language laboratories have become an integral part of the paraphernalia for teaching the language in all educational institutions. A Handbook for English Language Laboratories aims to develop students' ability to use the language accurately, appropriately and fluently for one-to-one and one-to-many communication in a variety of contexts. It also briefly introduces them to Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). The book is divided into three parts - Computer Assisted Language Learning, The Sound System of English and Communication Skills. Part one deals with the uses of computers and information technology in developing language skills. Part two endeavours to help the students learn the appropriate pronunciation of English. The focus here is mainly on the practical aspects of English phonetics. The information covered in this part, will help in overcoming the mother tongue influence (MTI). In an era of globalization, where you are expected to speak English with global intelligibility, Accent Neutralisation or Accent Reduction has assumed greater importance than ever before. Accent neutralization/ reduction attempts to reduce the mother tongue influence and makes spoken English sound closer to the American or British variety. Part three seeks to help students develop their communication skills. This section also provides practical tips for effective public speaking, preparing resumes, facing interviews, making presentations, participating in group discussions, debates etc. Key topics discusses: - The sound system of English - Accent, rhythm and intonation - Presentation skills - Preparing resumes and facing interviews - Group discussions, debates, role play and public speaking
Mastering the American Accent with Online Audio
Author | : Lisa Mojsin |
Publisher | : Barrons Educational Services |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2016-09-15 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1438008104 |
Mastering the American Accent is an easy-to-follow approach for reducing the accent of non-native speakers of English. Well-sequenced lessons in the book correspond over eight hours of audio files covering the entire text. The audio program provides clear models (both male and female) to help coach a standard American accent. The program is designed to help users speak Standard American English with clarity, confidence, and accuracy. The many exercises in the book concentrate on topics such as vowel sounds, problematic consonants such as V, W, TH, the American R and T and others. Correct lip and tongue positions for all sounds are discussed in detail. Beyond the production of sounds, the program provides detailed instruction in prosodic elements such as syllable stress, emphasis, intonation, linking words for smoother speech flow, common word contractions, and much more. Additional topics that often confuse ESL students are also discussed and explained. They include distinguishing between casual and formal speech, homophones (e.g., they're and there), recognizing words with silent letters (e.g., comb, receipt), and avoiding embarrassing pronunciation mistakes, such as mixing up "pull" and "pool." Students are familiarized with many irregular English spelling rules and exceptions, and are shown how such irregularities can contribute to pronunciation errors. A native language guide references problematic accent issues for 13 different language backgrounds. Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.
Speech Rhythm in Varieties of English
Author | : Robert Fuchs |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2015-09-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3662478188 |
This book addresses the question whether Educated Indian English is more syllable-timed than British English from two standpoints: production and perception. Many post-colonial varieties of English, which are mostly spoken as a second language in countries such as India, Nigeria and the Philippines, are thought to have a syllable-timed rhythm, whereas first language varieties such as British English are characterized as being stress-timed. While previous studies mostly relied on a single acoustic correlate of speech rhythm, usually duration, the author proposes a multidimensional approach to the production of speech rhythm that takes into account various acoustic correlates. The results reveal that the two varieties differ with regard to a number of dimensions, such as duration, sonority, intensity, loudness, pitch and glottal stop insertion. The second part of the study addresses the question whether the difference in speech rhythm between Indian and British English is perceptually relevant, based on intelligibility and dialect discrimination experiments. The results reveal that speakers generally find the rhythm of their own variety more intelligible and that listeners can identify which variety a speaker is using on the basis of differences in speech rhythm.
English Speech Rhythm
Author | : Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1993-04-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027285837 |
This monograph reconsiders the question of speech isochrony, the regular recurrence of (stressed) syllables in time, from an empirical point of view. It proposes a methodology for discovering isochrony auditorily in speech and for verifying it instrumentally in the acoustic laboratory. In a small-scale study of an English conversational extract, the gestalt-like rhythmic structures which isochrony creates are shown to have a hierarchical organization. Then in a large-scale study of a corpus of British and American radio phone-in programs and family table conversations, the function of speech rhythm at turn transitions is investigated. It is argued that speech rhythm serves as a metric for the timing of turn transitions in casual English conversation. The articular rhythmic configuration of a transition can be said to contextualize the next turn as, generally speaking, affiliative or disaffiliative with the prior turn. The empirical investigation suggests that speech rhythm patterns at turn transitions in everyday English conversation are not random occurrences or the result of a social-psychological adaptation process but are contextualization cues which figure systematically in the creation and interpretation of linguistic meaning in communication.