next to each other that make it hard to pronounce. An example would be the word “stop” the /st/ at the beginning of the word would be an initial consonant cluster. The words attempted by the two years olds contained a higher number of consonants than vowels. The percentage of consonants pronounced correctly compared to that of a normal speaking adult was 70%
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Positive Transfer ❑ Negative Transfer 4. Analysis of Polish learner errors caused by Negative 7 Language Transfer ❑ Reading ❑ Phonetic Errors ❑ Stress ❑ Juncture ❑ Vowels ❑ Consonants ❑ Intonation 5. Influence of language learning environment. 9 6. Conclusion 10 7. References 12 Negative Transfer of Pronunciation and the Polish Second Language Learner
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CONTENTS A. The overview of Languages in the United States……………………………………………………………. 2 B. Official language status…………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3 C. Immigrant languages…………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 6 D. American English and the development…………………………………………………………………………. 7 E. Regional Differences………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 8 F. American English vs. British English………………………………………………………………………………… 10 I- Pronunciation and Spelling………………………………………………………………………………
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AMAZING FACTS OF ENGLISH English is a West Germanic Language. It spread with the growth of the British Empire‚ becoming the dominant language in Canada‚ the United States‚ New Zealand and Australia. The growing global influence of the US has further increased the spread of English. Today English is probably the most widely spoken language in the world‚ with many people learning it as a second or foreign language‚ like me and you. It is estimated that there could be as many as 1.5 billion total English
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CONTENTS Introduction 3 1. British English and American English pronunciation 7 2. British English and American English vocabulary 10 3. British English and American English grammar 13 Conclusions 16 References 17 Introduction The object of this work is to study‚ analyse‚ and most importantly compare differences between two major branches of English language: American English (also called General American) and British English (also called UK English
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Melayu/Bahasa Malaysia is written in romanised script consists of alphabets A to Z. So Bahasa Melayu is not phonetics. * Words in Bahasa Melayu are syllable. * From all of the alphabets‚ five letters are vowels while the rest of the alphabets are consonants. II. THE VOWELS There are six vowels in Bahasa Malaysia: a is pronounced as aa/ar saya (I) ayah (father) adik (younger brother/sister) mana? (where?) e (taling) is pronounced as a in English letter meja (table)
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HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS INTRODUCTION Historical linguistics‚ also called Diachronic Linguistics‚ the branch of linguistics concerned with the study of phonological‚ grammatical‚ and semantic changes‚ the reconstruction of earlier stages of languages‚ and the discovery and application of the methods by which genetic relationships among languages can be demonstrated. According to dictionary.com‚ Historical linguistics is the branch of linguistics which deals with the history and development
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31.10.2011 What is Linguistics? The study of human languages; including the influence of one language on another; how language and words are formed and change within time; the rules of the language- how words are formed‚ the structure of sentences and words; relationship between culture and language; how language is acquired- the process of language acquisition (foreigner verses mother tongue language). There are two approaches/types of linguistics: 1. Traditional Linguistics- the only field
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The English Language originates from a Germanic language of the Indo-European family from several local languages brought by 6th century invaders.It has since spread throughout the British Isles and into various regions where Britain held overseas colonies. Today‚ as the second most spoken language in the world‚ it has been subjected to multiple prejudices concerning its acquisition‚ reception and learnability as a second language. As the language of business‚ science and technology‚ English should
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related with teaching of the sounds of a particular language. Not only the sounds. It also refers to teaching of the multiple aspects which could be included as below: 1. Teaching of sound system of language 2. Teaching of segmental: teaching of vowels and their production and use‚ teaching of consonants‚ their production and use and also the phonemes and allophones of the particular phonemes. 3. Teaching of supra segmental features: stress system‚ Tone‚ intonation‚ juncture‚ length‚ rhythm etc
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