Pronunciation Change: Past, Present & Future

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Pronunciation Change: Past, Present & Future The Final Lecture: Pronunciation Change: Past, Present & Future

Pronunciation. Geographical (places) Examples? Chronological (times)

The young and the old…

Old English… English before the Norman Conquest (1066) looks and sounds QUITE different.

Understanding pronunciation from the past…

Middle English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE0MtENfOMU

1600… Shakespeare Shakespeare (today performed using NRP) But the original sound of Shakespeare was quite different. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s “R” sound in American English and in Shakespeare’s time?

Early Modern Period of English

Dr. Samuel Johnson As we can see in the previous slide, English—by the 1750’s—looks very much like the English of today. What helped this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7W7UgFxri8

Change in recent times and in progress (now) The story of English pronunciation is that 1) The words, spelling and pronunciation have changed significantly over time… 2) English is more consistent than in the past (thanks to the dictionary) 3) English continues to change. What are the ways English is changing now? Discuss.

Old versus young generations.

Consonants?

T-voicing >

Changing vowels…

Changing Stress and Intonation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6tN2SUAmUc (Aussie Upspeak)

Stress

Try it!

Compounds

Spelling

Those Americans!!!

American Influences…

Place names Worcester / Woosta Leicester / lesta Often place names in English are pronounced differently than they are spelled. This is changing—especially in the case of smaller towns and suburbs.

Foreign Place Names

So… English is changing… English continues to change… Why? Why is this important for language learners?

What do all of these changes have in common? Usage. We learn language to use it (hopefully!) as therefore language is alive. Anything that is alive changes. Otherwise, our language learning is _______.

In sum… Throughout the semester we learned to understand pronunciation we must… Focus on sounds, not letters Listening skills strongly impact our ability to create, correct and understand sounds Practice saying the sounds, not just reading them on the page This—like everything with language begins and ends with usage. To understand the always changing ways of English—use it!