PPT-Language, Dialect and Accent

Nature of a language The linguist makes no value judgment She 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 . To understand that there are many external factors that influence our choice and language and cause it to ‘come out’ the way it does.. To understand that we all make judgements based on how people talk.. 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. Every . language has a lot of variation, especially in the way it is spoken. . If we . just look at English, we find widespread variation in the way it is spoken in . different countries . such as . Australia, Britain . 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. and some related issues. 【. 本著作除另有註明外，採取. 創用. CC. 「姓名標示. －非商業性－相同方式分享」台灣. 3.0. 版. 授權釋出. 】. The “Work” under the Creative Commons . K.T.KHADER. IUG-GAZA. Language variation. No . two speakers of a language . speak exactly . the same way. No individual speaker speaks the . same way . all the time. Language Varieties. Language variety refers to the various forms of language triggered by social factors.. By: Prabjot, Sajida, Davette, Molly and Amy. Introduction. Language. is a set of rules for generating speech. Language is . learned. instead of being . biologically inherited. . Symbols. are . sounds. Claire Ashmore. 7. th. Northern Englishes Workshop, The University of Edinburgh. C.Ashmore@shu.ac.uk. Is Chesterfield in the . North. , . South . or Midlands?: . “. Not quite the north and not quite . Dialect. is . an author’s use of speech patterns (way . of . speaking) characterizing a characters background and/or geographical . area or certain group of people. . Dialect helps to make a character and setting appear realistic.. E.g. English spoken in Hawaiian accent/dialect.. Every language is spoken in many variations. E.g. America English – British English – Australian English. Also there exists a range of varieties in different parts of these countries.. 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 . 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. He said that a child's language should be accepted and teachers should appreciate the importance of this. An attempt to suppress an accent is irrational . and neither humane nor necessary. Criticising a persons speech can be an attack on his self esteem.. 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.