by some minor peculiarities in the sound system‚ vocabulary and grammar and by their own literary norms. The differences between the English language as spoken in Britain. The USA‚ Australia and Canada are immediately noticeable in the field of phonetics. However these distinctions are confined to the articulatory-acoustic characteristics of some phonemes‚ to some differences in the use of others and to the differences in the rhythm and intonation of speech. The Armenian language is an Indo-European
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Cambridge CELTA Written Assignment 1: Focus on the Learners Part A: Student profile: Personal Information: Previous Language Learning Experience: Chien has been studying English for two years‚ of which only the last three months have been at English teaching centres; the rest of her English learning has been self-taught. Because of this‚ her pronunciation and listening skills are not as good as they should be for an intermediate level student. She is conscious of this fact and this negatively
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* what is anthropology? * Anthropology uses a holistic perspective to understand human culture and what it means to be human * The working definition: the empirical comparative study of humans as biological and cultural beings‚ informed by the overarching principles of cultural relativism and by the avoidance of ethnocentrism * Four Traditional Fields of Anthropology * Physical anthropology * Also known as biological anthropology. Examines the biological and behavioral
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American Sign Language‚ commonly abbreviated ASL‚ is the native and natural language of individuals living in the United States who are Deaf. ASL finds its parentage in primarily two distinct sources; signs that were used communicatively within smaller communities of people in the 16th through 19th Centuries in the Colonies and States of the U.S.‚ and the strong influence of Old French Sign Language which was introduced in the mid 19th Century. As with any creole‚ over a matter of just a couple of
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Some people can’t communicate properly. Some never will. The only people that understand them are the people that struggle with the same things they do. People with communication disorders must become part of a discourse community to be able to achieve their ultimate goal of being able to communicate with everyone. In order for these people to achieve their goal‚ they need others that are interested in helping them that understand their disorder. For someone interested in communication disorders
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Text Analysis I General information 1. Who is the author? 2. What is the title? 3. Is the title clear or obscure? 4. What feelings and expectations does the title arise? 5. Who is the narrator: ➢ The author him/herself (a person who knows everything about the facts and the characters but takes NO part in the action of the story) ➢ External narrator ( i. e. an outsider who speaks of people they knew but whose role in the plot is merely that of an observer)
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judgments to non-contemporary fiction. I have dissected the play and made an attempt to understand the context in which it was written and presented. All I came to find was a story about a young woman who lost her identity. Henry Higgins is a wealthy phonetics professor who makes a bet with his friend Col. Pickering that he can transform Eliza Doolittle‚ an uncouth Cockney flower girl‚ into a lady in three months. Henry compares her to a “squashed cabbage leaf”. During her lessons she’s put through ridiculous
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which attracts the attention of phonetics enthusiast‚ Henry Higgins. Henry Higgins insults her lack of education and class‚ which also attracts an audience. Mr. Higgins is acquainted with Colonel Pickering who has come from India to work with him. At the end of the scene Higgins gives Eliza enough money for her to get into a cab and drive home. Act 2 We are introduced to Professor Henry Higgins’ house and his work. Eliza turns up at the door asking for phonetic lessons for her to become a lady
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subcase of the standard commitment in science to seek the broadest generalizations possible. In contrast to the cognitive linguistics approach‚ other approaches to the study of language often separate the language faculty into distinct areas such as phonology (sound)‚ semantics (word and sentence meaning)‚ pragmatics (meaning in discourse context)‚ morphology (word structure)‚ syntax (sentence structure)‚ and so on. As a consequence‚ there is often little basis
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