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    with: Accent Phonological Characteristics of General American English Accent – There is no discernible accent from the three characters in the commercial in the beginning. They are utilizing the standard newscaster accent that is widely accepted as the television standard of speech. Intended effect – enhances the effect of the business office setting and dress code of all three characters as professional and efficient. Phonological characteristics of Mid Atlantic/Philadelphia Accent – “How

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    or extraordinHARRY but I think they are much more. They have awesome voices and accents‚ they seem to be caring people and last but not least they are very good looking. I love their accents and voices. When they sing they sound American but when they talk they sound British/Irish. Any real fan can tell who they are when they talk since they are all from different parts of The United Kingdom they have different accents. One Direction seems to be caring people unless it is just the media that makes

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    Native speakers of English are a speaker who used English as a first language or mother tongue. Usually native speakers of English are people from English-speaking countries like the USA‚ Great Britain‚ Australia‚ Canada‚ Ireland‚ etc. Anyone may acquire the native speaker status by virtue of being just as proficient as a genetic native speaker of a language. In Singapore‚ where English has been the medium of instruction since 1987 and where‚ by now‚ there are many users of English whose proficiency

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    Thomas Wolfe’s play The Mountains reads as though it could be a nationwide hit. In letters written by Thomas to his professor George Pierce Baker “If the audience is depressed over my play‚ I am depressed over my audience (Clark 39).” I feel the same sentiment with Thomas Wolfe when he talks so fondly of his play. When reading The Mountains‚ I had the feeling I was experiencing something of importance. Thomas Wolfe in the early age of his college career was able to write a play that portrayed strong

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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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    Intonation Patterns

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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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    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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