Week 4 Lecture Regional & Social Dialects WHAT 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
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demand helps to regulate production and reduce warehousing which will in turn reduce the cost. As for local responsiveness‚ Lego has taken effort to adapt the products to suit Asian market. Lego opened its first theme park in southern Malaysia and it planned to open an onsite hotel. In addition‚ Lego created new product lines namely ‘Legends of Chima’ and ‘Lego Friends’. Lego also created new video games with an emphasis on the role play of education. Not only that‚ Lego has adopted the just in time approach
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Airport Screening Airport screening has become a controversial topic among Americans because of the new technology of being able to thoroughly screen people and reveal more than past machines have been able too. Airport securities personal are able to see through passenger’s clothes to ensure that no illegal items are being brought on board. A lot of people feel that the virtual nude scanners are an invasion of privacy that the airport security personal can see nude pictures of all the people
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W. Bush’s daughter‚ Barbara‚ have in common? Both are outspoken supporters of Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood is a non-profit organization that provides a variety of high-quality‚ affordable medical health services to millions of women (and men) across the world. The organization works towards providing reproductive health care services and sexual education for the public at over 650 locations nationwide. Planned Parenthood has been federally funded since 1970; however‚ because it provides
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TUTOR:SANJAY TUTOR:SANJAY REGIONAL CUISINE OF FRENCH Name:crise sTUDENT ID:NS06750 REGIONAL CUISINE OF FRENCH Name:crise sTUDENT ID:NS06750 Directory INTRODUCE 1 History and background 2 Geography 3 4 Culture 5 Change agent
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ASSIGNMENT ON REGIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION This assignment paper is a “summary report” of an article named “Regional Economic Integration in a Global Framework” on G-20 WORKSHOP held in Beijing‚ China‚ on 22-23 September‚ 2004. Course Title: Regional Economic Integration Course Code: IB-512 Prepared By- Md. Hedayetul Islam MBA (Regular) Batch no: 7th ID- 34 Department of International Business University of Dhaka Submitted To- Md. Rashedur Rahman Assistant Professor‚ Department of International
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Denver International Airport: Uncovered When asked about your experience at the airport most would reply by saying “It is dull and boring” or “a tortuous large amount of time spent waiting”. However‚ words used to describe the Denver International Airport are much different. As you drive up to the grand entrance of the 4.8 billion dollar Denver International Airport you are hauntingly greeted by “the Mustang”. Created by Luis Jimenez from New Mexico‚ the Mustang was the first piece of
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Honored at San Diego Spring Home/Garden Show as a Garden Master 1888PressRelease - Eco Minded Solutions‚ as San Diego’s leading landscape and architectural design construction firm‚ has been invited to be a Garden Master level exhibitor at the Spring Home/Garden Show. For Eco Minded Solutions‚ getting out into the community to share their knowledge is just the way they do business. They will be on hand to share their innovative design perspective this weekend at the 29th annual San Diego Spring
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HEAR AND NOW... ONE VOICE Pacific Region Conference (PRC) Registration Packet YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES PRC is packed from start to finish from the day you walk into camp. The core program is based on a carefully crafted themed manual of activities that each cabin facilitator uses to encourage the kind of discussion and sharing that leads to friendship‚ trust and self discovery. By living in co-ed groups‚ teens learn about themselves and each other through structured experiences
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“A major proportion of deaths could be prevented if people were to change their health-behaviours” Human behaviour plays a central role in the maintenance of health and the prevention of disease. Health-risk behaviour can be defined as any activity undertaken by people with a frequency or intensity that increases risk of disease or injury (Steptoe & Wardle‚ 2004). The health risk behaviours might cluster together into a risky lifestyle. Much of the mortality and morbidity is caused by individual
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