3rd year THEORY OF PHONETICS (Philology Department) Seminar No 5 (2 hrs) MAJOR ACCENTS IN THE UK. GENERAL AMERICAN AS THE AMERICAN ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION STANDARD Points for discussion: Major accents in the UK. 1. RP/BBC English as the British national standard of pronunciation: 1) Socio-historical survey of RP/BBC English. 2) Phonological and phonetic dimensions of RP/BBC English. 2. Cockney as an example of a broad accent of English. 3. Estuary
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poem is very basic. Each stanza is four lines long‚ making the poem a quatrain‚ and the rhyme scheme follows the pattern "ABAB‚ CDCD‚ EFEF..." etc. for each of the nine stanzas. Each stanza also has a recurrent rhythm pattern: 8 syllables‚ 7 syllables‚ 8 syllables‚ 7 syllables. He believes that people should lead heroic and courageous lives and not sit idle and remain ineffectual while the world rapidly changes around them: "Be not like dumb‚ driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!" His use of the
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refers to everyone‚ how anyone would do anything for a large sum of money. It comes to show‚ that people‚ are greedy for money. This poem appears to be in the form of a haiku‚ a form of Japanese poetry. Five syllables in the first line‚ seven syllables in the second line‚ and five syllables again in the last line. The poem is closest to be compared to a haiku rather than a sonnet or a sestina. There are three stanzas and eight lines in each stanza. Lang uses rhetoric language in his poem. Lang
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe 1599Come live with me and be my love‚ And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys‚ groves‚ hills‚ and fields Woods or steepy mountain yieldsAnd we will sit upon the rocks‚ Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies‚ A cap of flower‚ and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;A gown
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The most influential and prominent dramatist in English literature and in the Shakespearean era‚ William Shakespeare has certainly built a reputation of the greatest play writer in the English Renaissance. He was born on April 23‚ 1564‚ in his house in Henley Street‚ Stratford-upon-Avon‚ Warwickshire‚ England. Shakespeare lived to be 52 years’ old. Shakespeare’s birthday is normally celebrated on April 23‚ but according to the Gregorian calendar which is what is used today in the 21st century‚ he
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How to Analyze Poetry Poetry is a compact language that expresses complex feelings. To understand the multiple meanings of a poem‚ readers must examine its words and phrasing from the perspectives of rhythm‚ sound‚ images‚ obvious meaning‚ and implied meaning. Readers then need to organize responses to the verse into a logical‚ point-by-point explanation. A good beginning involves asking questions that apply to most poetry. Context of the Poem Clear answers to the following questions can help
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off the rest of the alphabet. In this publication Ebbinghaus used nonsense syllables; usually three syllables a consonant‚ a verb‚ and a consonant. Although‚ Ebbinghaus did not always use just three syllables he sometimes used up to six syllables. Ebbinghaus used himself in this study which took up five years to complete. (Schultz & Schultz‚ 2011) Ebbinghaus’s goal during this experiment was after the first syllable in the list was given the remainder of the list was to be repeated on the very
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an effort to give Japan a chance to win the war‚ the attack was led by a pilot named Mitsuo Fuchida‚ and the aftermath was devastating‚ but manageable. The attack on pearl harbor was Japan’s only chance to gain a leg up in a war against the U.S.. Yamamoto Isoroku was a Japanese Admiral during the second world war who had proved himself in war planning as well as actual battle. When war with the U.S. was considered imminent he advised the Prime Minister at the time Tojo Hideki. That the only way that
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read the passage selected according to his or her grade level as fast and accurate as possible paying attention to the content. Each passage consisted of a text of about 200 words. Maximum reading time allowed was 4 min. Fluency is expressed in syllables per second as is customary in Italy‚ accuracy as percentages of errors corresponding to words read violating the correspondences between orthography and
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Iambic pentameter means that there is a particular rhythm in a line or in a verse. It is broken up into small groups of syllables called “feet.” Iamb means that there is an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable. The root word “pent-“ has to do with the number five. So iambic pentameter consists of five groups of two syllables with the accent on the second syllable. The lines of this poem rhyme according to the scheme of the English sonnet in the form of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. “Shall I
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