Accented Speech Flashcards
(15 cards)
what does language variation comprise of
- accents
- dialects
how does language variation move along a continuum
- basilect
- hi regional variation
- lo social class
- speakers unintelligible to each other - acrolect
- lo regional variation
- most desired variation
- fully intelligible across all speakers - mesolect
- covers continuum
- where accents occur
what is our production of sound governed by
our phonetic inventory
what is a typical characteristic of japanglish
difficulty hearing and remembering /r/ and /l/ in spelling
what is a typical characteristic of indian english
substitute /v/ with /w/
what is a typical characteristic of indonesian english
substitute /v/ with /f/
what is a typical characteristic of SgE or MyE
substitute /θ/ with /t/ or /d/
what is a typical characteristic of chinese english
substitute /θ/ with /s/
what is a typical characteristic of tagalog english
substitute /a/ with /æ/ OR /f/ with /p/
what is a typical characteristic of australian english
vowel substitution
- /ɔɪ/ instead of /aɪ/
- /aɪ/ instead of /eɪ/
- /ɜeɪ/ instead of /iː/
what is a typical characteristic of nepalese english
constantly use aspiration for stops regardless of onset position
substitute /ə/ with /a/
what can be done to sounds in many varieties of languages
- added into specific phonetic envi
- deleted
- modified
why is it not so straightforward as sound changes to segments
suprasegmentals
what do we do if client comes to us for accent modification
- establish cause (structural, behavioural)
- collect speech sample
- analyse patterns
- train receptively with minimal pairs
- train expressively with minimal pairs
when dealing with accent modification cases, what does an ST require
strong grasp of phonetics and phonology
