mostly due to social triggers but also have a deeper‚ inherent level. A certain tendency to ease the effort in pronounciation is built into language because of anatomical‚ physiological and psychological make-up of human beings. Dropping of consonants e.g. French n as in an (year) or bien (good) etc. → no voiced n but a nasalised preceding vowel Phoneticians found out that the sound [an] is being pronounced as [ān] anyway‚ since the nasal cavity cannot be closed off totally during uttering
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work that I was presenting. I began to make excuses for the decisions that I made when deciding not to take the AP exam and when deciding to focus more on my other classes. I began making more consonant decisions and thoughts in order to lower the dissonance that I was feeling. I had created new consonant cognitions when deciding that it was a college level class and deciding that it was ok if I didn’t do well in the class at that time. My actions reflect ways to reduce cognitive
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Hearing is one of the traditional five senses‚ ability to observe sound by detecting vibrations through an organ such as the ear. The sense of hearing is very important because it has helped humans survive. We know what hearing is‚ but what is hearing loss? Hearing loss happens when there is a problem with one or more parts of the ear or ears. People who have hearing loss might be able to hear some sounds or nothing at all. People also may use the words deaf‚ deafness and hard of hearing when they
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Abstract Chinese and English are two quite different languages that belong to two language families. When Chinese students study English‚ they tend to lose sight of the differences between the two languages. As more and more people begin to learn and use English‚ an unsatisfying problem appears. That is Chinglish‚ which appears in learners’ pronunciation‚ writing and translation. This term is familiar to every Chinese student. However‚ students don’t know the origin of Chinglish—the pidgin‚ let
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Hide and Seek Ion the poem Hide and Seek‚ Vernon Scannell makes excellent use of all the sense to bring out the great excitement children usually experience whenever they play this ever- green game. The fact that short sentences are used in rapid succession and that the poem seems to have been written in one short stanza also contribute to this feeling. The persona is the one being sought‚ so he hides himself in the toolshed at the bottom of the garden making sure that his feet “aren’t sticking
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3rd year THEORY OF PHONETICS (Philology Department) Seminar No 5 (2 hrs) MAJOR ACCENTS IN THE UK. GENERAL AMERICAN AS THE AMERICAN ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION STANDARD Points for discussion: Major accents in the UK. 1. RP/BBC English as the British national standard of pronunciation: 1) Socio-historical survey of RP/BBC English. 2) Phonological and phonetic dimensions of RP/BBC English. 2. Cockney as an example of a broad accent of English. 3. Estuary
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Cognitive and Language Development Infants and very young children are far more cognitive competence than they appear. They possess a rich set of abilities that allow them to learn rapidly 1) The research has provided a lot of important information regarding the nature of child development. When exploring the development of children they are divided in five different age periods. During the infancy period‚ language development for birth to two months is a range of meaningful noises that
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BORROWING IN THE TRANSLATION OF D. H. LAWRENCE’S LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER INTO INDONESIAN A THESIS BY: CUT NOVITA SRIKANDI REG. STUDENT NO.: 060705050 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH SUMATRA FACULTY OF LETTERS ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEDAN Cut Novita Srikandi : Borrowing In The Translation Of D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover Into Indonesian‚ 2010 2009 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Alhamdulillah‚ in the name of Allah SWT‚ I would like to thank God‚ the Powerful and the Merciful for giving me the guidance
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1.Phonetics as a branch of linguistics. Phonetics and other disciplines. Applications of phonetics. Ph-s is a basic branch of linguistics that studies the inventory‚ structure and functions of the speech sounds. Ph-s studies the phonemes and their allophones‚ the syllabic structure‚ the distribution of stress‚ intonation and the ways in which they are organized. Ph-s investigates into a system of units and the variation of the units in all types and styles of spoken language. Some disciplines like
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Pronunciation Studio Free Course Sample from our 120 page course book with audio: An English Acc nt Phonetics Intonation Schwa IPA Spelling & Sound Index Pg 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Contents Introduction IPA Chart Consonant Sounds Vowel Sounds Spelling & Sound IPA Structure - Schwa Structure - Function Intonation - 3 Patterns Intonation - Tonic Syllable What Next? Answer Key All Material & Audio © Joseph Hudson 2010 Introduction Who is this course for? This course is a practical
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