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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Word Stress and Sentence Stress Normally when we say "I feel stressed" it means "I feel anxious". Stress is a kind of worried feeling about life or work. But there is another kind 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
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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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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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we compare stressed and unstressed syllables in the words contract [’kσntrækt]‚ to contract [kən’trækt]‚ we may note that in the stressed syllable: (a) the force is greater‚ which is connected with more energetic articulation; (b) the pitch of voice is higher‚ which is connected with stronger tenseness of the vocal cords and the walls of the resonance chamber; (c) the quantity of the vowel [æ] in [kən’trækt] is greater‚ the vowel becomes longer; (d) the quality of the vowel
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powerful means of differentiating the functional styles. 2. The components of the intonation 1) Speech melody or the pitch. The sentence possesses definite phonetic features: variations of pitch or speech melody‚ pauses‚ sentence stress‚ rhythm‚ tempo and timbre. Each feature performs a definite task and all of them work simultaneously. It is generally acknowledged that the pitch of the voice or speech melody‚ sentence stress and rhythm are the three main components of intonation‚ whilst pauses
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Introduction I have chosen the theme “Intonation” because it is one of the most interesting things of the speech and it is very important to acquire the proper intonation. The aim of my speech is to tell what the speech melody is and how is it connected with sentence stress and how they influence each other. Intonation is magic. It can say more than even words. Intonation can tell you about the mood and the character of the person. Each person has his own intonation. That is why already at the first
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Film Review Outline Name: John Carlo V. Balmes Film Title: Pitch Perfect Adapted From: Pitch Perfect by Mickey Rapkins Release Date: September 28‚ 2012 Director: Jason Moore Genre(s): Musical‚ Comedy Setting: Barden University Lead Actor(s): Anna Kendrick‚ Rebel Wilson‚ Skylar Astin‚ Anna Camp Main Characters and their Attributes: * Becca Mitchell – A musically-inclined reclusive girl who wants to pursue a music career‚ she joins the Bellas to please her father and finds
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Topic 12 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Law of Sale of Goods (Part I) LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this topic‚ you should be able to: Define the meaning of goods; Describe the classification of goods; Differentiate a contract of sale and an agreement to sell; Explain the implied terms in a contract of sale of goods; and Identify the importance of transfer of property in the goods. INTRODUCTION The Sale of Goods Act 1957 (Revised 1989) is the statute applicable to sale of goods in Peninsular Malaysia. For
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relationship‚they are not stressed. Pronouns | We‚you‚he‚they | Prepositions | In‚on‚at‚from | Articles | A‚an‚the | INTONATION: The rise and fall of the pitch of our voice is called Intonation.Some degree of intonation is brought about by every person when he/she speaks because the pitch of voice keep on changing. FUNCTION OF INTONATION: Actually‚ Intonation is a very difficult area of phonetics investigation. When a foreign learner tries to observe
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