Accents Speak louder than Speech What is an accent? An accent is the way you pronounce words. Everyone has an accent. It is insoluble to speak without one. You might consider yourself and others not to but you do. Usually you get your ‘accent’ from how‚ where and when you grew up‚ but not everyone has the same accent as the people who live around them. It might change without you noticing from new life experiences. Why do places develop different accents? The main reason for this is human
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MANAGING YOURSELF How to Pitch a Brilliant Idea Before you even know it‚ the stranger across the desk has decided what kind of person you are. Knowing how you’ll be stereotyped allows you to play to and control-the other guy’s expectations. by Kimberly D. Elsbach C OMING UP WITH creative ideas is easy; selling them to strangers is hard. All too often‚ entrepreneurs‚ sales executives‚ and marketing managers go to great lengths to show how their new business plans or creative concepts
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Pitch correction also known as “Auto-tune” is software used heavily in today’s popular music world. It is plug-in software that is added to industry leading recording programs such as Protools‚ Logic and Cubase. “When used properly it corrects the intonation of pitches without altering any other aspects of sound. Pitch correction is mostly used in studios to adjust vocal lines. In rare cases it is used to correct a note played on an instrument or for live performance (Daley‚ 2003).” It arrived on
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As Persian is a stress-accent language‚ a certain syllable in a word is more prominent than other syllables. Considering the AM framework‚ there are three important prosodic studies of Persian. Eslami (2005) believe that in Persian there are four pitch accents (L*‚ H*‚ L*+H‚ L+H*)‚ two phrase accents (L-‚ H-) and also two boundary tones (L%‚ H%). He states that each of the above has a specific meaning and there
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instrumental in conveying meaning. No sentence can exist without a particular intonation. No meaning can be expressed without it. What is intonation? It is quite impossible to describe intonation in a word or two. Sometimes the ups and downs of pitch and loudness are compared to the waves of the ocean. ‘The surface of the ocean responds to the forces that act upon it in movements resembling the ups and downs of the human voice.’ (Bolinger‚ 1972) There are two main approaches to the problem of
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General information about Japanese * Although Japanese is spoken almost exclusively in Japan‚ it has been spoken outside. * Before and during World War II‚ when Japan occupied Korea‚ Taiwan‚ parts of China‚ the Philippines‚ and various Pacific islands‚ locals in those countries learned Japanese as the language of the empire. * As a result‚ many elderly people in these countries can still speak Japanese. * More than the 1.2 million of the United States sometimes employ Japanese as
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interview his soft Texan accent stays the same for the most part however there are times at which he reveals his personal accent which consists of a mix between Texas and Louisiana‚ Texas being his home state and Louisiana the southern state from which his father is from. This personal accent is most evident at certain parts in his speech. For example when he pronounces “my life” there is a slight draw on the ‘I’ making it noticeably different from other American accents‚ which is why‚ it stands
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Background Communication can be a tricky business‚ especially when the listener and speaker are from different linguistic backgrounds. There are pitfalls aplenty with poor word choice and improper inflection‚ and there are numerous reasons a student has difficulty reproducing the sounds of English correctly. Perhaps pronunciation had little focus in previous classes‚ or maybe the student has never had any formal language instruction. Even students with significant educational experience can have
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of stress that actually helps us understand. This other kind of stress is an accent that we make on certain syllables and words when speaking English. When words combine to form sentences not all of them are stressed. Sentence stress is the music of spoken English. Sentence stress is what gives English its rhythm or "beat". You remember that word stress is accent on one syllable within a word. Sentence stress is accent on certain words within a sentence. For example‚ in the sentence‚ She ‘went to
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by her pitch of tone‚ she spoke to the poor as if they were rats or animals‚ and she tried bribing the judge for her love of the children but not true she wanted it as it was the only person who was next for the crown. The judge azdak came from being rags to a rich person who judge unfairly. His props showed a lawless state which by his own actions made. Himself was a bad action drinking‚ taking bribes‚ ET? These three actors gave an intent impression of watching the play‚ the use of pitch‚ pace
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