Introduction lecture - describing
7 important questions on Introduction lecture - describing
Which variations have high rising terminals?
- Australian English
- New Zealand English
- Northern Irish English
- Some speakers in the US and GB too:
- Heavily associated with California ‘Valley Gir
The soicalinguistic perspective of high raise terminals?
- Guy et al. (1986) on high raise terminals (HRT) in Australian English:
- Led by women, teenagers, working class speakers
- Used to check listener comprehension or securing listener cooperation for extended ‘turn’
- Levon (2016) on HRT in young white speakers in London:
- Used more by men
- Different use of HRT between genders:
- Women more typically use HRT for turn-taking
- Men more typically use HRT to introduce new informatio
The two timings and which variations belong to which group.
Syllable timing:
- More full vowels
- Relatively even distribution between syllables
- Jamaican English
- MLE
- many Englishes in Africa
- Indian Englishes
- Singapore English
Stress timing:
- Fewer full vowels
- Uneven distribution between syllables
- Entire vowels are elided (or shwa)
- Most UK Englishes
- Irish Englishes
- Australian English
- New zealand English
- North American Englishes
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What can happen with consonant clusters?
- Phonetically reduced in casual speech --> constonant cluster reduction
- differences between varieties
- African American Vernacular English
- Multicultural London English
- Jamaican English
- Indian English
- Singaporean English
What is the most important feature to identify Idian English
What is the most important feature to identify Northern Irish English?
What is the difference between South and North Irish English?
- PRICE
- MOUTH
- CLEAR L
- TH stopping
- the upsidedown dubble W
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