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    Dialect and Accents

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    Strong accents and dialects are dying out because of the world today needs standard clear communication where everyone speaks and writes in the same way. It is better not to reveal your wealth and status with your accent. Discuss with reference to your own regional voice. We all speak with an accent and we all speak a dialect these include both the Standard English dialect and the Modern Non-standard Dialects. There are variations of accents according to a speaker’s age‚ gender‚ ethnicity and social

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    proper‚ the USA‚ Australia‚ New Zealand and some provinces of Canada. It is the official language of Wales‚ Scotland‚ in Gibraltar and on the island of Malta. Modern linguistics distinguishes territorial variants of a national language and local dialects. Variants of a language are regional varieties of a standard literary language characterized by some minor peculiarities in the sound system‚ vocabulary and grammar and by their own literary norms. Standard English – the official language of Great

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    College Students’ Perception Based on Their Accents Jenny Son Hunter College/ City University of New York Abstract Whether they are not true‚ people form judgments and biases based on an accent. In‚ the past‚ researchers have suggested that people for perceptions of non-native speakers through stereotyping. Lambert et al. (1960) developed a matched- guise technique to uncover biases to different languages. A similar study was done at Hunter College‚ to examine whether

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    gyung sang region dialect. My dad was born and raised jealla area till he got married so my dad and his all family speak jealla region dialect. These two region dialects have pretty different accents. I speak the standard Korean because I born and raised Seoul. Also‚ since my mom and dad speaks different dialects‚ I am able to speak my parents’ directs consciously. As I grow up‚ I realized that people in these two area have different characteristics in society. That is related to dialect and social prejudice

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    Accent

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    ACCENT Accent or Prosody. This fallacy arises from a false accent or a false emphasis in speech. A false stress of voice is placed upon a given word in order to mislead‚ confuse‚ or produce a wrong interpretation. Accent fallacies are fallacies that depend on where the stress is placed in a word or sentence. The meaning of a set of words may be dramatically changed by the way they are spoken‚ without changing any of the words themselves. Accent fallacies are a type of equivocation. Here’s

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    Dialects

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    The Dialects of American English Before I learn sociolinguistics class‚ I think it is quite difficult to tell what the difference between language and dialect is. But‚ after I had learned I found out that language is something that mankind use to communicate to each other. Language is a big word. It concludes dialect‚ vernacular‚ and so on. Nevertheless‚ dialect is the language that use only in idiolect‚ only use in their group. For me‚ I think that there are many dialects in each country. For

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    Dialect

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    Speaking is people’s one of basic functions. Without speaking‚ we cannot communicate with others. Of course‚ there are many languages in the world and even a number of dialects in one country. Those dialects may more and less effect people’s lives and people can gradually know the areas’ backgrounds and cultures throughout the dialects. In China‚ because its 5000-year history‚ from east to west or north to south‚ there are so many different ways to speak in this 9‚600‚000 km2 magic land. An old Chinese

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    Cebuano Dialect

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    million people living in the central part of the country. The Cebuano people have been using a single dialect but with different accent‚ pronunciation‚ meaning‚ and the way they deliver it. Cebuano is the language spoken in the provinces of Cebu‚ Negros Oriental‚ Bohol‚ Southern Leyte and Southern Masbate. The purpose of this study is to distinguish the variations and difference of our own Cebuano Dialect. Before the Spaniards and other Europeans came to the Visayas‚ there was no word or place called

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    The Impact of Accents

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    The Impact of Accent Stereotypes on Service Outcomes and Its Boundary Conditions The Impact of Accent Stereotypes on Service Outcomes and Its Boundary Conditions EXTENDED ABSTRACT “When we listened back to calls people had complained about often they were fine. Some people wanted the member of staff to fail because they were in India. I don’t know why that should be‚ but when customers start voting with their feet‚ you have to respond.” --Adrian Web (Call Center Manager‚

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    The Cockney Dialect

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    History‚ Dialect‚ and Slang of East London Christopher Sharpe Ohio University November 7th‚ 2011 It’s rhyming slang you know‚ like bee’s honey… money. Like I could say give me the bee’s (TV Movies‚ 2011). This is an example of the Cockney Rhyming Slang from the dialect of the same name produced in East London. The Cockney dialect has not only been prominent in East London but in London as whole. The lower working class of London has spoken the Cockney dialect for centuries

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