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    ASPECTS OF THE PHONOLOGY OF GUNGANCHI LANGUAGE BABATUNDE‚ Oluwatobi Olayemi 07/15CB045 A RESEARCH PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS AND NIGERIAN LANGUAGES‚ FACULTY OF ARTS‚ UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN ILORIN – NIGERIA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS (B. A. Hons) IN LINGUISTICS MAY‚ 2011. CERTIFICATION This essay has been read and approved as meeting the requirements of Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages

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    The student’s data Transcript between my friend (S) and me (E) E: uhhm (3) well (1) I’m looking *forward+ (filler – first of many – um‚well‚ like!) S: *what (.) maybe+ (2) don’t turn away when you’re talking (2) E: Whaju-mean? S: (1) well (.) yeah ‘cause it won’t pick up your voice (.) *so easily+ E: *oh OK (.)+ yeah (2) well it’s just hard to (3) um (.) I’m just gonna put thee (.) um (.) piece of paper over it (write about ‘thee’ – filler) S: Oh I wouldn’t do that (.) cause it

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    Regional accents show great variation across the areas where English is spoken as a first language. This reading provided an overview of the many identifiable variations in pronunciation‚ deriving from the phoneme inventory of the local dialect‚ of the local variety of Standard English between various populations of native English speakers. Local accents are part of local dialects. Dialects of English have unique features in pronunciation‚ vocabulary‚ and grammar. I have learned that the term "accent"

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    This assignment will discuss the variation in spoken language‚ such as‚ the difference between accents and dialect. In addition‚ it will explain how some people adapt their accent and dialect depending on different situations. Furthermore‚ this paper will also discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using accent and dialect and highlights how some people are stereotyped and discriminated by the way they use spoken language. There are many ways to speak English‚ ‘Based on how much the English

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    Philippine Airlines‚ Inc. (abbreviated as PAL and also known historically as Philippine Air Lines) operating as Philippine Airlines‚ is a flag carrier of the Philippines. Headquartered at the Philippine National Bank Financial Center in Pasay City‚[2][3] the airline was founded in 1941 and is the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name.[4] Out of its hubs at Ninoy Aquino International Airport of Manila and Mactan-Cebu International Airport of Cebu City‚ Philippine

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    the sense of musical pitch and tone relations and the ability to distinguish tone qualities”. On the other hand Improvisation is aimed at developing the capacity of free invention whilst Eurhythmics is set to give students the feeling for musical rhythm through body movement. In the Dalcroze eurhythmic plan is the use of the piano on which the teacher improvises cues for the instant body response‚ in the free expression of the basic music concepts such as dynamics‚ tempo and pitch. The Dalcroze method

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    Accents Throughout this controlled assessment‚ I have noticed that I use different accents in different context. When I speak to my family and friends‚ I change my accent when having a conversation with them in English. Which is made apparent when I pronounce: “what else did you have just pizza and nothing else?” in a different accent on transcript 2. This is because I am of Bangladeshi ethnicity which has influenced the way I pronounce words. I may purposely speak in a Bangladeshi accent if I am

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    same accent The variations of the New York accent are a result of the layering of ethnic speech from the waves of immigrants that settled in the city‚ from the earliest settlement by the Dutch and English‚ followed in the 1800s by the Irish and Midwesterners (typically of French‚ German‚ Irish‚ Scandinavian‚ and English descent). Over time these collective influences combined to give New York its distinctive accent. And just Individuals with a trained ear can differentiate between the accents of

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    Language can divide us because if a person has an accent or doesn’t know how to speak the same language as the other person they are communicating with then it often seperates them. That’s the problem right now‚ some people are not willing to give a person the chance to communicate because they don’t know the language. And that is why language is dividing people. Entering the country with a brighter future‚ she unknowingly entered an atmosphere where Accent‚ Race‚ and upbringing causes separation between

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    The halls of the palace may have been glamorous and opulent‚ but there wasn’t a word grand enough to describe the throne room. Extraordinary gems gnarled in gold filigrees bedecked Emperor Leroy’s trophies for the world to behold. Amongst the collection‚ Ramesses identified the standard of Elthem‚ the head of a unicorn and the sacred cloak of Zephyr. A perfectly preserved dragon‚ last of its kind‚ stared down at Ramesses with reposeful eyes from atop of the emperor’s metal throne. Between the

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