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Exploration: Accents of English Lecture C1 Exploration: Accents of English

Textbook: Unit C Accents in English C1: General American & Comparisons to NRP (Standard British English) In the “C” units we will apply our knowledge of English phonology to specific types of English accents… … and practice the differences in sounds.

What to remember: Standard English (American (GA) and British (NRP)) are quite similar. There are 5 main differences between GA and NRP consonants. There are 10 main differences between GA and NRP vowels. This lecture will discuss GA and NRP similarities and differences and offer us a chance to practice these accents.

Types of variation found in accents

Classifying pronunciation variation between accents

Distributional variation

Practice—can these words be pronounced differently?

Lexical variation

No easy way… no shortcut or rule…

Realisational variation

British NRP and General American These are both “standard” varieties. Are they very different?

Some differences… Consonants

Some differences… Consonants

Some differences… Consonants

Some differences… Consonants

Yod-dropping?

Yod-dropping

Some differences… Consonants

Vowels

Vowel… differences

Vowel differences…rhotic…

Rhotic????…

Vowel differences…

Vowel differences…

Vowel differences…

Vowel differences…

Practice!

Vowel differences…

Vowel differences…

Vowel differences…

Vowel differences…

Vowel differences…

Stress… & stress-related features of GA

Practice! (These words are all borrowed from French)

-ary… -ery… -ory

Differences… individual words

Stress shift

Consonant variance

Vowel variance… part 1

Vowel variance part 2

Names!

Setting, intonation and rhythm

Remember creaky voice? Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7BBNEwyOjw This woman explains creaky voice (and how it’s become popular!) Also… watch how this American speaker opens her mouth while speaking. Kardashians… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txSSO4VglMI

Intonation

Rhythm

End. Types of variation? Differences… vowels, consonants… stress… individual words… Names… Setting… Intonation… Rhythm… Again—while this looks like a long list of differences… the similarities between standard varieties are significant.