The Origin Of Transatlantic Accents In The English Language

The language accent in Mexican people has a particular significance. The accent comes with stress. The Mexican Citizens put effort to learn English as a second language. However, it’s understandable that the accent of an American won’t be the same. As another person who comes from outside of the United States, An Example; in the play “Los Vendidos” Valdez talks about the multiple stereotypes of Mexican

As someone who identifies with both culture varieties in Louisianan and Hispanic Texan forms, one can see the various types of differences, including music, food, recreation, and life as a seventeen-year-old. As a senior in high school, my parents still give my commutes to and from school. This can be shown by the quote, “In short, the society in which you grow up, and your particular location in that society, lie at the center of what you do and how you think” (James M. Henslin, 2014, pg. 3.) A noticeable confliction shows when my dad drives me to school, he plays the radio, which predominantly plays country music. However, when my mom picks me up from school, she uses Pandora, which gives her more independence on choosing the genre she wants. The songs she often wants to hear is Mariachi, a Spanish-speaking music genre which mixes pop culture in Mexico, folk tales, and current issues. When I either practice my driving or hang out with friends, music genre tends to lean towards what is popular amongst my age group and location, which is pop and country. When I am around my family and relatives, music tends to be in Spanish, such as Mariachi and Spanish Pop. A Mexican-American culture had been forming over generations in my family tree, as my grandparents are from Mexico and my parents are from South Texas. When I visit my grandparents and other relatives, who mainly live at the tip of Southern Texas, cultural changes start to become more apparent as radio stations change

It seems unusual to start from scratch with such a thing. With there being several types of accents, why must one feel like they should change theirs? As Text B illustrates, it seems as though it is celebrities in particular that are changing their accents to fit in with ‘showbiz’ and the latest trends or for a movie they will play a part in. Within seconds of meeting someone, we make judgements about who they are just by the way they sound. Attitudes towards accents are based more on social connotations and prejudices surrounding the location or social group associated with that accent than on the sound itself.

The great characteristics of Maine’s dialects had been clearly discussed in the Dialect Project 1 such as rich vocabularies, various syntaxes, different morphologies, and unique lexicon. However, the main goal of this project is to explore those previously explained concepts to see how Maine’s dialects are received such as negative or positive, inaccurate or not, too exaggerate or too simple, and how various ways of linguistics are presented in real life situations. Speaking of phonology, the descriptions of words are exactly what explained in the Dialect Project 1, which is there are many words are being pronounced with the Ah sound like the pronunciation of the word “father.” Moreover, there are different words but have the same pronunciations in Maine’s dialects. Beyond this similarity, the other thing seems inaccurate is the pronunciation of the letter R. The demonstration of this project will demonstrate that the word R is pronounced very soft and less stressed. Syntactically, the word order, phrases or idioms in Maine’s dialects are very broad, rich, and its ridiculous meaning might make people confuse sometimes. Last but not least is the variation lexicon that some words are written in SAE, but the meaning is slightly different overall.

8c) I am kind of surprised that the British accent is perceived as more credible. There might be some cases where a British accent would be more trustworthy than an American. Although, everyone, no matter what their accent is, can come across as deceiving when they start talking. As a side note, the source they received this information from—Psychology Today— is not necessarily the most credible source itself. I feel as if a person who has a British accent might be more engaging in a conversation with a stranger over an American accent, but I do not personally think that makes them more reliable. Perhaps it could be seen that way because we want to trust them more since we enjoy their

People living in America have different types of accents and dialects due to the groups of people who immigrated here from europe and inhabited in different regions of America. Also, other foreigners who moved from other different parts of the word and settled. The non native english speakers accent in affiliation with the native english speakers gave to the present number of dialects and accents. Today Americans speak a with a wide variety of accents and dialects because of the blending of the native dialect with the foreigners.

It was like I caught the attention of everyone when I opened my mouth. I heard things like "say water" then I would respond "wata". They would laugh and I was in awe. There was like a weird effect that occurred whenever I spoke. If they didn't find me interesting before, now they did. Not only did that amaze me, but it showed me how I can use my accent to help me socially. I started to use my accent to benefit me. For instance, if I wanted to come off as the funny person within a group of schoolmates I just met, I would start talking in the Grenadian dialect. This would instantly attract the students attention in such a way that what I say didn't matter but how I pronounced it

The article “A person’s Accent Can Change Your Perception of What He Is Saying” by Alice Robb was very interesting. The title of the article says it all. I agree with the author statement in the article “listening to a voice with a foreign accent can prime people to see a situation according to the values of foreign culture. The Chinese-English speakers voices seemed low, soft, scared, and did not stand out as independent, therefore when I looked at the picture of the fishes it made me think the group of fishes were chasing the single fish that was swimming ahead. Once I listened to the American-English speakers the voice sounded more at a higher pinch, strong clear, and independent, which made me looked at the picture differently than when

The second is the overriding concept that Midwestern English is inherently “accent-less,’ when compared to other variations of English within the United States. While Midwestern English is distinct enough to be included in many hand-drawn dialect maps of the US, the Midwestern “accent” is often labeled as “unknown accent” (Hartley 2005) (Preston et al 2002). This is because many people outside of the Midwest believe that the region has no distinguishable accent or linguistic feature to stereotype (Preston et al 2002). As much of the Midwest was (and continues to be) agriculturally based, there are very few distinct “working class accents,” as are common in New York City (Hartley 2005).

Another way to think about is to think that we are holding that sound a little longer. Say the two variations slowly pushing down on one sound and then the other. The word address is interesting. In America they stress the ADD part of the word, ADD ress.

While most of us have likely heard these speech patterns before, and could easily identify when a person is using them, it is important to understand the specific components of the accent. One of the biggest, and most obvious linguistic components of the “gay accent” is pitch. Generally speaking, “the higher the voice, the more effeminate a voice sounds” (R.G., 2011). The accent is associated with a higher pitch, which is commonly seen as being feminine. In addition, some speech sounds are distorted and different from what we expect in male speech. The phonemes that most commonly affected by the “gay accent” are /s/, /z/, and /l/. In speech, the [s], [z] and [l] sounds are slightly elongated. (Bowen, 2002). Similarly, many

In the documentary film ‘Do I Sound Gay?’ by David Thorpe, Thorpe explores the speech patterns of gay men to find out if there really is a ‘gay voice’ and how true that stereotype holds. This goes way back to a familiar linguistic stereotype of Western gay men – they sound different from heterosexual men (Cameron and Kulick 2003). Their unique and distinctive way of speaking has been termed ‘the voice’, and phoneticians have come up with lists of its characteristics (Cameron and Kulick 2003). Therefore, this essay will look at what is the ‘gay voice’ otherwise referred to as ‘the voice’ in this essay, and I will establish my stand on whether I believe there is a ‘gay voice’. One major identifying factor of ‘the voice’ is the pitch.

In the Adventures of Huckleberry Fin the reader is immediately told of the different dialects that will be used in the novel. Writing in the different dialects is an intentional effort to show that differences in culture, race, and the time at which the novel takes place. The events of the novel take place before the events of the civil war, sometimes between 1835-1845. Mark Twain uses irony to challenge difficult topics like slavery and religion. The novel was published in 1884, only 20 years after slavery was abolished, but African Americans still did not have rights.

Broad Australian English (BAE) is a language variety unique to Australia. Despite being spoken by a minority of Australian population today, it has

Firstly, they found that in Ballymacarrett, the innovative backing of /a/ is associated with men and the Belfast vernacular, while the traditional front /a/ functions as a network marker for women. In contrast, the innovative raised variants of /ɛ/ are associated with women and more prestigious outer-city speech, while the traditional low /ɛ/ functions as a network marker for men. Furthermore, although the /a/ backing innovation is generally led by East Belfast males, the backing of /a/ among the young Clonard women is unusually high. The Milroys concluded that while working in a city centre shop, the Clonard women have weak-tie encounters with customers who use the back /a/ innovation, and they then subsequently adopt this innovation in their own speech. For the Milroys, this supports the idea that linguistic innovations are diffused via weak-tie connections, where the true innovators are connected to the early adopters via weak-tie connections.