Regional accents show great variation across the areas where English is spoken as a first language. This reading provided an overview of the many identifiable variations in pronunciation‚ deriving from the phoneme inventory of the local dialect‚ of the local variety of Standard English between various populations of native English speakers. Local accents are part of local dialects. Dialects of English have unique features in pronunciation‚ vocabulary‚ and grammar. I have learned that the term "accent"
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over the past 150 years‚ since the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed. Some would consider Spanish a 3rd language and some would dismiss it as unorganized slang. In modern society‚ Spanglish is classified as a popular term‚ not a technical one. Although many variations of Spanglish do exist and is widely denounced for being a form of slang‚ Spanglish has proven‚ to hold its own flexible syntax‚ grammar interface‚ and switching rules. Spanglish can be found in the speech of the Hispanic population
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Study Day 3 – Communication Write a staff information leaflet about effective communication and partnership working. You should include: The reasons why people communicate Body Language – 60% Tone – 30% Talking – 10% Personal development Make friends Teach Learn To know what’s going on Keep up to date Express need To gain knowledge Build confidence Build relationships Health & Safety Everything runs smoothly Sort out issues Problem Solve Information share parents Reassure
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language is used. It is proposed that carefully designed language activities be carried out by instructors in order to impart sociolinguistic skills to learners. The importance of universal intelligibility should be stressed‚ as opposed to native accent. Furthermore students should also be taught proper contextual use of English‚ in accordance to cultural reference and cultural appropriacy should be part of the learners ’ core
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aspects of geographical linguistics within the United States. A dialect or an accent means the words we use and how we pronounce them‚ and in this case the language is American English. Variations of English that result in local dialects are discussed‚ reasons for dialect differences are given‚ and attitudes about dialects are shown in the video. There are several ways that dialects form from "standard" languages. First there is accent or the way the language is pronounced. Second there is vocabulary
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United Kingdom have diverged in a few minor ways‚ leading to the versions now occasionally referred to as American English and British English. Differences between the two include pronunciation‚ grammar‚ vocabulary (lexis)‚ spelling‚ punctuation‚ idioms‚ formatting of dates and numbers‚ although the differences in written and most spoken grammar structure tend to be much less than those of other aspects of the language in terms of mutual intelligibility. A small number of words have completely different
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Unit 1 – Public Service Skills; Task 5 – Interpersonal Communication Skills. There are many different types of Interpersonal Communication skills. In this report I will be explaining the effectiveness and the need for these. Reading – In every public service‚ you will be expected to be able to read to an acceptable standard. This is because‚ if you’re a police recruit‚ you will have the expectations of reading skills because your role would involve digesting large amounts of written material. There
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the speech of individuals and groups. Linguistics 201‚ May 28‚ 2001 Kordula De Kuthy 1 Dialect 2 Accent Any variety of a language characterized by systematic differences in pronunciation‚ grammar‚ and vocabulary from other varieties of the same language is called a dialect. Everyone speaks a dialect – in fact‚ many dialects at different levels. The people who speak a certain dialect are called a speech community. Some of the larger dialectal divisions in the English speaking
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English‚ southern English‚ New York dialect‚ and Spanish influenced English and many more. The movie represents some of the social and regional differences in how Americans speak and portray their opinions and attitudes on how different everyone is. People’s attitudes about dialects and accents that are typically negative toward one another and are seen as sub-standard forms of English. One good point that was made during the film was that depending on someone’s accent‚ people will judge you in the way
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different sayings and talks in an unusual way. It mainly deals with modern technology and new generations. Although most Americans speak the same language‚ there is a controversy on modern language today because of the use of cell phones‚ regional area slang‚ and background origin. Cell phones have become a necessity to Americans in today’s world. Many Americans may have a personal cell phone plus a business cell phone. Teenagers are the biggest target towards cell phones. Text messaging is the most
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