2012 International Conference on Education Technology and Management Engineering Lecture Notes in Information Technology‚ Vols.16-17 Study on Gender Differences in English Xia Wenjing Chongqing City‚ Shapingba District‚ Chongqing University of Science and Technology Postcode: 401331 Keywords: English language; gender; gender differences Abstract. As mankind has gender difference‚ language is the same. There is a consensus that language has gender difference as a social behavior in communication
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information to be obtained: pitch information and the overall envelope of the sound. A key element in the morphing is the manipulation of the pitch information. If two signals with different pitches were simply cross-faded it is highly likely that two separate sounds will be heard. This occurs because the signal will have two distinct pitches causing the auditory system to perceive two different objects. A successful morph must exhibit a smoothly changing pitch throughout. The pitch information of each sound
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editing was performed as well as degradation of signals by the application of Gaussian noise. Background noise was successfully removed from a signal by the application of a 3rd order Butterworth filter. A code was then constructed to compare the pitch and formant of a known speech file to 83 unknown speech files and choose the top twelve matches. I. INTRODUCTION Development of speaker identification systems began as early as the 1960s with exploration into voiceprint analysis‚ where characteristics
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sounds ‘cooler’ to speak in an American accent and adopt the accent for certain words. This causes a mix in accents and if it continues to catch on other people will be doing it as well. For example‚ celebrities who were originally from Australia but then moved to another country such as England and spent enough time there‚ they will change in the way they speak. Such as Elle Macpherson‚ she now has a mixture of an English accent and a faint Australian accent. However‚ while TV shows have contributed
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movie‚ the boys learn that they all have to work together and all pitch in to achieve a common goal by‚ all helping to build the pitch with not much supplies‚ they practiced after school when they could have been doing something else‚ and most of all‚ the caught up in a game they were losing. The first reason the boys show that they all work together to achieve a common goal was‚ when they all helped gather supplies and make the pitch. On their floating island‚ there is not really any room to play
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patterns when we speak. What do I mean by intonation patterns? Well‚ intonation refers to the pitch patterns we Americans use when we talk. There are many intonation patterns in American English. These patterns are important because they convey meaning. While some tonal languages such as Mandarin‚ Cantonese and Vietnamese use changes in pitch to differentiate between words‚ English uses pitch or intonation patterns over phrases and sentences to convey larger chunks of meaning. The two most
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place of occupation. Maria states that she feels discrimination played a key role in the decision to choose a different individual for the position. Maria states she is the only woman and only ethnically diverse individual who also has a different accent than her workplace peers. Even though she has less than perfect evaluations‚ Maria states that the evaluations are further proof of the discriminating practices at the company in which she is employed. The company’s response to the allegation of
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variation between different languages is. • This will give us a greater understanding of and tolerance for the differences between the speech of individuals and groups. Linguistics 201‚ May 28‚ 2001 Kordula De Kuthy 1 Dialect 2 Accent Any variety of a language characterized by systematic differences in pronunciation‚ grammar‚ and vocabulary from other varieties of the same language is called a dialect. Everyone speaks a dialect – in fact‚ many dialects at different levels
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During a Renaissance fair‚ people can listen to the sounds the instruments made back then‚ and how those sounds became similar to the instruments used today. Invented in Persia 2‚000 years ago‚ the hammered dulcimer has a wide variety of dynamics. Its pitch is very high and it is usually played very fast in tempo‚ making the pace the dulcimer produces quick and hard
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CAN YOU TELL ABOUT THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THESE SPEAKERS? Notes on Examples Reasonable (even accurate) guesses about speaker’s various characteristics e.g. socio-economic or educational background esp. for English accents in Britain • With distinctive regional accent origin even from short utterance Holmes (2008) p. 127 3 Characteristics of Speech • Remember? No two people speak the same! – ∞ sources of variation e.g. even single vowel is pronounced in different ways!
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