PPT-Foreign Accent & Dialect Modification Training

Colette EDWARDS E EdwardsEdwards August 22 2014 Preparation for First Session Read client file or screening information Complete the Client Review File sheet Investigate characteristics of native language L1 and how it impacts L2 American English Google books articles. Fadi Biadsy. April 12. th. , 2010. 1. Outline. Problem . Motivation. Corpora. Framework for Language Recognition. Experiments in Dialect Recognition . Phonotactic Modeling . Prosodic Modeling. Acoustic Modeling. L. earned Foreign Accent After Stroke. Presented by: . Vineet. . Sidhu. Introduction . Foreign accent syndrome (FAS): . also . known as ". pseudoaccent. “ or unlearned . foreign . language. .. . JAMAICAN ACCENT Youssef SOUINI ” The Jamaican accent adopts words and structure from Jamaican Patois, a language that combines words from English, Patois and several West African languages. Nature of a language . The linguist makes no value judgment. S/he recognizes and accepts the existence of language varieties. . School traditions emphasize a single “correct” standard form.. Linguistics acknowledges that a certain dialect may be treated as a standard form . Pointer. Numerative. Describer/. s. Classifier/. s. Thing. Qualifier/. s. To quantify. . the . thing:. . How many or how much. ?. To point to. . the . thing:. . Which . one. . are you . pointing to?. Before: Exposed Tree Stump. After: Accent Boulder. Dialects and Accents. Phonetic Variation. Poll Everywhere. https://www.polleverywhere.com/. Phonetic Variation. Accent. Spoken by non-native speakers. Reflects normal influence of native phonological and phonetic system. Lecture (2) . Outline . languages and dialects. Variety of language. Distinction between language and dialect . Regional dialects:. Regional variation . Distinction . between dialect and patois. Dialect boundaries. . Intelligibility in the English Sphere. By Felix . Henoud. EDUC 450B S18 Oct 162014. “. Teachers of . english. are required to teach not English as a general linguistic phenomenon but English as a subject...”p216, Jenkins 2000. Spanish. Is that an accent mark or did Andrew just kill a fly on my paper?. 3 BASIC RULES:. Best to memorize these. 1 – . If. a . word. . ends. in a . vowel. , . or. 'n' . or. 's', . the. stress . 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. . Yalda. . Ahmadvand. Aging is an unavoidable fact of human nature. Decline in physical abilities. The effect of age on learning new skills. Decline of abilities in second language learning, based on different presupposition. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. : Ronald . Wardhaugh. Overview. Important Terms:. VARIETY. LANGUAGE. DIALECT. Dialect geography, isoglosses, boundaries, and continuum. VERNACULAR. PATOIS. KOINE. Clyne 2012. Pronunciation. Pronunciation is easy once you memorize the rules…. 1. If a word has an accent mark, stress the marked vowel. (So easy, right?). pronunciation. 2. If a word is not accented with an accent mark, the stress goes on the last syllable, unless.