Download or read book Variation Study of the Received Pronunciation RP Vowel Phonemes e and Among Ewe Speakers of English in Ghana written by Lena Awoonor-Aziaku and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ghanaian English Pronunciation written by Sophia A. Adjaye and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an analytical description of the English accent used by Ghanaians. The work begins with a socio-historical background of English use in Ghana, with a view to identifying the possible varieties of English introduced to the then Gold Coast.
Download or read book Features Function and Importance of Received Pronunciation written by Adrian Müller and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, , language: English, abstract: Received Pronunciation, hereafter abbreviated as RP, which has been considered a model of English pronunciation is broadening to more tolerance towards a larger amount of speakers. (Upton/Kortmann 2008:238f.) Looking at the history of RP first will lead us to conclusions about its function and social importance, which are still applicable nowadays. Afterwards, special features of RP will be discussed as examples that might also imply certain changes that have happened to RP over the last decades. Afterwards a decision can be made, whether the development RP is undergoing are being useful and promising for the future of the English language.
Download or read book Experimental Phonetics Changes in the Location of Vowels written by Job Anane and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2017 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: B, University of Education, course: EXPERIMENTAL PHONETICS, language: English, abstract: The positions of individual vowels in the acoustics vowels space often change over time in languages of which Asante-Twi a dialect of Akan is not an exception. Sound changes in languages are typically associated with social factors like age, gender, social class. This study will explore the changes in the location of vowels as produced by four generational of speakers of Asante-Twi speakers. Fant (1966) also posits that since the length of the vocal track determines the overall patterns change, age and depend on gender. The current study will therefore investigate whether generational differences can affect vowel quality by comparing speakers of Asante-Twi with ages 6-14, 19-24, 40-50 and 60+.
Download or read book The Pronunciation of Ewe written by Jack Berry and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Analysis of the Variations from Standard English Pronunciation in the Phonetic Performance of Two Groups of Nonstandard English speaking Children written by Frederick Williams and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book South African English Pronunciation written by David Hopwood and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Predicting Pronunciation and Spelling in the English Language written by Aldilami Abbas and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teaching English Pronunciation to the Twi speaking Student written by Paul Schachter and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effects of Swahili Vowel System on Kenyan English Speakers Pronunciation written by David M. Irungu and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of native language in learning a foreign language cannot be ignored when studying second language acquisition. With scholars' interest in studying emergence of World Englishes, several factors that contribute to all these varieties are taken into consideration. Pronunciation variations as a result of native language influences bring forth a variety of English peculiar to the speakers' native language phonology. In order to observe the influence of Swahili phonology to English by Kenyan English speakers, in this study I will look at phonological differences between Swahili and English languages at the level of vowel sounds. In response to confirm the hypothesis, the study was carried out by analyzing news articles reported by different news reporters from four television channels in Kenya. The data was collected by listening to the news scripts while paying attention to two Swahili vowel sounds (/a/ and /i/) that tend to have impact on English vowels sounds that are close to them, in terms of place and manner of articulation, as spoken by Kenyan English speakers who speak it as a second/third language.
Download or read book Linguistics For Dummies written by Rose-Marie Dechaine and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating, fun, and friendly way to understand the science behind human language Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics students study how languages are constructed, how they function, how they affect society, and how humans learn language. From understanding other languages to teaching computers to communicate, linguistics plays a vital role in society. Linguistics For Dummies tracks to a typical college-level introductory linguistics course and arms you with the confidence, knowledge, and know-how to score your highest. Understand the science behind human language Grasp how language is constructed Score your highest in college-level linguistics If you're enrolled in an introductory linguistics course or simply have a love of human language, Linguistics For Dummies is your one-stop resource for unlocking the science of the spoken word.
Download or read book The Pronunciation of English written by Daniel Jones and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spoken and Written English of Ghana Up to the Secondary School Level written by Emmanuel Victor Manukure Addo and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Better English Pronunciation written by Joseph Desmond O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Intelligibility of Native and Non Native English Speech written by and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2006-08-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study is to measure the intelligibility of Cameroon English speech to British and American English speakers and vice versa, and to analyse the major causes of intelligibility failure when speakers of these varieties of English interact. Focus is on segmental and supra-segmental phonology. The study was motivated by a number of concerns: the trepidation nursed by some scholars that the emergence of non-native varieties around the world would cause English to disintegrate into mutually unintelligible varieties in the way Romance languages devolved from their Latin ancestors; the fact that previous studies on intelligibility were centred on the traditional approach which considers non-native varieties of English to be deficient, and not different from native varieties and the debate on the level of phonological analysis that is considered the greatest threat to intelligibility between native and non-native speakers. Five tests were designed for the study, namely Test I (connected speech), Test II (reading passage), Test III (phonemic contrast elicitation), Test IV (nucleus placement in words) and Test V (nucleus placement in sentences)
Download or read book A Descriptive Study of Received Pronunciation Variants with Special Reference to Unstressed Vowels written by John Owen Gauntlett and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
