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Author : George Ernest Fuhrken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Standard English Speech written by George Ernest Fuhrken and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoff Lindsey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030043576
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book English After RP written by Geoff Lindsey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book concisely describes ways in which today's standard British English speech differs from the upper-class accent of the last century, Received Pronunciation, which many now find old-fashioned or even comic. In doing so it provides a much-needed update to the existing RP-based descriptions by which the sound system of British English is still known to many around the world. The book opens with an account of the rise and fall of RP, before turning to a systematic analysis of the phonetic developments between RP and contemporary Standard Southern British (SSB) in vowels, consonants, stress, connected speech and intonation. Topics covered include the anti-clockwise vowel shift, the use of glottal stops, 'intrusive r', vocal fry and Uptalk. It concludes with a Mini Dictionary of well over 100 words illustrating the changes described throughout the book, and provides a chart of updated IPA vowel symbols. This book is an essential resource for anyone interested in British pronunciation and sound change, including academics in phonetics, phonology, applied linguistics and English language; trainers of English teachers; English teachers themselves; teachers of voice and accent coaches; and students in those areas.
Author : Robert Fuchs
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3662478188
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Speech Rhythm in Varieties of English written by Robert Fuchs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : James Bradstreet Greenough
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Words and Their Ways in English Speech written by James Bradstreet Greenough and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tony Bex
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113465314X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Standard English written by Tony Bex and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standard English draws together the leading international scholars in the field, who confront the debates surrounding 'Standard English', grammar and correctness head-on. These debates are as intense today as ever and extend far beyond an academic context. Current debates about the teaching of English in the school curriculum and concerns about declining standards of English are placed in a historical, social and international context. Standard English: * explores the definitions of 'Standard English', with particular attention to distinctions between spoken and written English * traces the idea of 'Standard English' from its roots in the late seventeenth century through to the present day. This is an accessible, seminal work which clarifies an increasingly confused topic. It includes contributions from: Ronald Carter, Jenny Cheshire, Tony Crowley, James Milroy, Lesley Milroy and Peter Trudgill.
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1913724271
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Politics and the English Language written by George Orwell and published by Renard Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Politics and the English Language, the second in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell takes aim at the language used in politics, which, he says, ‘is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind’. In an age where the language used in politics is constantly under the microscope, Orwell’s Politics and the English Language is just as relevant today, and gives the reader a vital understanding of the tactics at play. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Author : Robert Macneil
Publisher : Nan A. Talese
ISBN 13 : 0307423573
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Do You Speak American? written by Robert Macneil and published by Nan A. Talese. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is American English in decline? Are regional dialects dying out? Is there a difference between men and women in how they adapt to linguistic variations? These questions, and more, about our language catapulted Robert MacNeil and William Cran—the authors (with Robert McCrum) of the language classic The Story of English—across the country in search of the answers. Do You Speak American? is the tale of their discoveries, which provocatively show how the standard for American English—if a standard exists—is changing quickly and dramatically. On a journey that takes them from the Northeast, through Appalachia and the Deep South, and west to California, the authors observe everyday verbal interactions and in a host of interviews with native speakers glean the linguistic quirks and traditions characteristic of each area. While examining the histories and controversies surrounding both written and spoken American English, they address anxieties and assumptions that, when explored, are highly emotional, such as the growing influence of Spanish as a threat to American English and the special treatment of African-American vernacular English. And, challenging the purists who think grammatical standards are in serious deterioration and that media saturation of our culture is homogenizing our speech, they surprise us with unpredictable responses. With insight and wit, MacNeil and Cran bring us a compelling book that is at once a celebration and a potent study of our singular language. Each wave of immigration has brought new words to enrich the American language. Do you recognize the origin of 1. blunderbuss, sleigh, stoop, coleslaw, boss, waffle? Or 2. dumb, ouch, shyster, check, kaput, scram, bummer? Or 3. phooey, pastrami, glitch, kibbitz, schnozzle? Or 4. broccoli, espresso, pizza, pasta, macaroni, radio? Or 5. smithereens, lollapalooza, speakeasy, hooligan? Or 6. vamoose, chaps, stampede, mustang, ranch, corral? 1. Dutch 2. German 3. Yiddish 4. Italian 5. Irish 6. Spanish
Author : Diane Windingland
Publisher : Small Talk Big Results
ISBN 13 : 147830913X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (783 download)
Download or read book Speech Class for Teens written by Diane Windingland and published by Small Talk Big Results. This book was released on 2012-07-27 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Provides the structure and content for 28 speech class lessons, including the handouts and forms needed ... Tested with 7th-11th grade students"--Page 4 of cover
Author : Edwin W. Bowen
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Questions at Issue in Our English Speech written by Edwin W. Bowen and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-08-21 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Questions at Issue in Our English Speech" by Edwin W. Bowen is a must-read for anyone who has ever been interested in the English language. The marked difference between spoken and written English is laid out clearly in this text which aimed to show how much skill one needs to master one, let alone both. Though years have passed since it was published, the book still rings true to this day.
Author : Joseph P. Olive
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780387979847
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Acoustics of American English Speech written by Joseph P. Olive and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1993-05-21 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the most contemporary and comprehensive description of the acoustics of the sounds used in American English. Intended to serve as an introductory text for students and professionals interested in acoustic phonetics, linguistics, physics, electrical engineering, and computer science, the authors bring to the subject the points of view of both linguistics and physics. The book uses numerous examples of acoustic spectrograms to show the continuities and variability of natural speech. The book begins by introducing the basic concepts of phonetics, phonology, and linguistics to readers whose background is in physics or engineering and introducing the physics of sound generation and analysis for speech scientists and linguists. The authors then use the tools developed in the first part to examine the characteristics of individual phonemes as well as the changes introduced when individual sounds are combined in speech. Modern applications of speech acoustics, especially speech synthesis and recognition, are also discussed.
Author : Rebecca Hughes
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415124812
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (248 download)
Download or read book English in Speech and Writing written by Rebecca Hughes and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than giving the student a list of facts to assimilate this book offers a selection of standard and non-standard pieces of spoken and written English that the reader uses to formulate opinions on structure and lexis for further self-study.
Author : Norman J. Lass
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1483219941
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Speech and Language written by Norman J. Lass and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speech and Language: Volume 6, Advances in Basic Research and Practice is a collection of papers that discusses pathology, theories, and clinical issues related to language and speech. Some papers describe auditory discrimination and intervention techniques for articulatory defects, assessment of auditory disorders, phonological systems of deaf speakers, as well as speech and language characteristics of aging persons. Other papers discuss issues in language and cognitive assessment of black children, distortions of the supralaryngeal vocal tract, the structure of the human tongue, transformation of the acoustic signal into speech, and methods to estimate glottal volume velocity waveform properties. One paper suggests guidelines that investigators should be aware of before giving any speech discriminating tests. These guidelines include the following: use of age appropriate tests, use of culturally unbiased tests, adaption of intrapersonal testing procedures, and utilization of recorded stimulus presentation. Another paper reviews auditory processing deficits associated with brain damage and the considerations applicable to the assessment of such disorders. It also suggests treatment planning. One paper concludes that the phonological structure of a fluent speech requires that the listener employ higher level sources of knowledge while making phonetic decisions. Linguists, speech pathologists., psychologists, speech therapists, neurologists, neuropsychologists, and neurolinguists will find the collection highly relevant.
Author : George Sampson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book English for the English written by George Sampson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1921 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139851217
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Standards of English written by Raymond Hickey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of a 'standard' variety of English has been the subject of a considerable body of research. Studies have tended to focus on the standard features of British and American English. However, more recently interest has turned to the other varieties of English that have developed around the world and the ways in which these have also been standardised. This volume provides the first book-length exploration of 'standard Englishes', with chapters on areas as diverse as Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. This is a timely and important topic, edited by a well-known scholar in the field, with contributions by the leading experts on each major variety of English discussed. The book presents in full the criteria for defining a standard variety, and each chapter compares standards in both spoken and written English and explores the notion of register within standard varieties.
Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521763894
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book Standards of English written by Raymond Hickey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length exploration of 'standard Englishes' with contributions by the leading experts on each major variety of English discussed.
Author : Thomas Burns McArthur
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521481304
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (813 download)
Download or read book The English Languages written by Thomas Burns McArthur and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-23 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plural? monolithic? legion? - Tom McArthur explores the nature of English in its local and global contexts.
Author : Edith Skinner
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557837240
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Speak with Distinction written by Edith Skinner and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Acting Series). The classic Skinner method to speech for the stage! This 75-minute audio CD and booklet is a companion to the paperback Speak with Distinction (ISBN 1557830479). Revised with new material added by Timothy Monich and Lilene Mansell.
