PPT-Language and Society: Accent and dialect Lesley

Language and Society Accent and dialect Lesley MilroyBelfast Studies William Labov The Social Stratification of English in New York City 1966 Workman studies 2008 Peoples perceptions of different accents Peter Trudgill Norwich. SHUSHA GUPPY INTERVIEWS LESLEY BLANCH First published by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster in 1991 in Looking Back: A Panoramic View of a Literary Age by the Grande Dames of European LettersLesley Blanch w 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.. Introduction. Every language will have more than one variety, especially in the way in which it is spoken. This variation in speech is an important and well-recognized aspect of our daily lives as language-users in different regional and social communities. This chapter considers the type of variation which has been investigated via a form of ‘linguistic geography’, concentrating on regional varieties.. 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 . 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.. Activity. In your small group, please discuss the following questions. Be prepared to share with your classmates!. What does the term “dialect” mean?. How many different “dialects” can you name. 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 . 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.. . 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. 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.. Los . Acentos. Mrs. O. Pacheco. Spanish II. SPANISH ACCENTS SUMMARY . Every word has a . stressed . syllable . (. sílaba. . tónica. ). For example, the word . espa. ñol. stresses the last syllable. .