PPT-Using prosody and intonation to identify accents:

The role of peak and valley alignment in the Spanish of Córdoba Argentina Jennifer Lang Rigal James Madison University InToSpan I University of Massachusetts Amherst Oct2014 Intonation of C. Mandarin has the most speakers Therefore it is easy to see how understanding differe nt accents can be very difficult as there are so many English accents not only from the UK America and Australia but from all over the world Most native English spe  . Hughes A., . Trudgill. P. .. ,. . English Accents and Dialects . (An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles). , Fourth Edition. ; Hodder Arnold: 2005. http://sounds.bl.uk/Sound-Maps/UK-Soundmap/full-screen. Dr. Rachel Mitchell. Dept. of Psychology, Durham Univ.. What is prosody?. Higher order language function:. Paralinguistic. or . pragmatic. phenomenon that accompanies words & can modify or influence meaning . • Definition of prosody – Intonation: pitch and boundaries – Timing within intonation phrases–Stress • Intonational phrasing in production: Two factors: • Intonat The natural rise of pitch in vowels . when . pronouncing words is known as stress. . All . languages have stress, but not all have written accent marks. . In Spanish, there are general rules for when a . 2 hour workshop for PPISMP Sem2, IPGKDRI August 2012. This is a WORKSHOP. Don’t even . think. about snoozing!. There will be an exam at the end!. 2. Look for your icon!. 3. ?. Come on down!. 4. If this is your icon:. Towards Improving Spoken English. English Pronunciation for Malaysians. What. . is. . the. . difference?. . 2. English Consonants. (unvoiced phonemes). Place of Articulation. Front → ------------------------------------------------------------------------→ Back. Prosody. Sometimes we put some spoken utterances in double quotation marks to distinguish them from the sentences. . In speech, the way we use to say something is very important to make the message clear.. EILEEN . fiNN. Concordia University . Problem of practice. Strong accents can hinder a person’s chance for high-status positions in certain fields.. Relevance. . Stereotypes regarding ethnicity are enforced with strong accents. . John Corbett: USP-CAPES International Fellow. Session 2: Phonemes and allophones. Today’s session. Review of IPA symbols: transcription test. Phonemes and allophones. Minimal pairs. Variations in sound. MUSIC 318 MINI-COURSE ON SPEECH AND SINGING. Science of Sound, Chapter 16. Springer Handbook . of Acoustics, Chapter 16. RHYTHM. A STRIKING CHARACTERISTIC OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IS ITS RHYTHM. . ENGLISH, RUSSIAN, ARABIC AND THAI ARE STRESS-TIMED LANGUAGES. STRESSED SYLLABLES RECUR AT APPROXIMATELY EQUAL INTERVALS. SYLLABLES MOST OFTEN END WITH A CONSONANT.. Francesco Cangemi. Universität. Zürich & . Universität. . zu. Köln. fcangemi@uni-koeln.de. I.. Theory. 09:30 . – 10:45. A. Architectures. 1. . P. rosody and intonation. Grammar 1.2. Puctuation. . Marks. In Spanish, upside-down punctuation marks ¿ and ¡. are added to the beginning of a phrase to signal a question . or exclamation. . You will continue to use the punctuation at the end of . Dawn Bowers PhD LXBlonder PhD KM HeilmanCenter for Neuropsychological Studies Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory University of Florida 1991 rev1999 Page 2of 20TABLE OF CONTENTSBackgroundTheoretic Over