Phonetics

Eliza Doolittle is a pitiable flower girl, who unfortunately becomes an experimental object of two linguistic gentlemen in Pygmalion. Higgins and Pickering, who are extremely interested in phonetics, share a mutual belief that changing someone’s speech manner and accent is the gist of a life-changing, social transformation. Their criticism of the girl’s dreadful accent generally reflects the inevitable reality of social hierarchy in Britain, where the wrongful partiality of language, social…

Of course these are not all categories of conversational humour, which appear during natural human interactions. Apart from words there are also facial expressions, gestures and strange ways of doing something that contribute to making a person laugh. Attardo (1994: 128) presents a detailed analysis of the fallowing pun: Why did the cookie cry? Its mother had been away for so long. [a wafer] (Pepicello and Green 1983: 59). Already the first sentence “activates the scripts for cookie and…

1. Introduction Learning disorders have always been a major field of interest when it comes to teaching, be it ESL, EFL or general teaching. What has been noticed in the last decade is that classrooms with students that experience learning disabilities have increased and thus I have decided to investigate the topic of EFL and learning disabilities, dyslexia in particular, in an effort to cater to the dyslexic students’ needs for my own development. However, it should be kept in mind that not all…

parents continue to deliver aspects of intervention that account for gradual phonological acquisition. This approach to therapy for unintelligible three to six year old children involves five components: parent education, metalinguistic training, phonetic production training, multiple exemplar…

African Americans have had a huge impact on American history. They have endured through unimaginable suffering and an uncountable amount of obstacles. Because of this, the African Americans have developed strong, unique voices which are expressed in many pieces of literature. African American literature often times moralize with religious themes and celebrate African roots. In James Weldon Johnson’s poem “The Creation”, he expresses his voice by explaining God’s byzantine and baroque process of…

classify categories of them based on the different parts. In English, we usually confront with ambiguous sentence, that is to say we can understand in two ways or more ways. We make a brief analysis from phonetic, syntactic and semantic ambiguity. 一． Phonetic ambiguity Generally speaking, phonetic ambiguity only happens in spoken language and communication, usually bringing about through homophony, stress, intonation and pause. 1. Homophony…

Mayans live a very unique lifestyle and have many creations of their own. Mayan people are very tan, skinny, and very smart. These people have invented the zero to help with harvesting, predicting when the next solar year will be and to use a calendar. The Mayans have invented many things that are still being used in today's world. This culture believes in being with their ancestors by eating a certain type of food. Mayans existed in the classic and pre-classic periods, which some of these…

Being a Germanic language, English has overcome several periods that influenced the development of the phonetic system. Great Vowel Shift caused a total change of sound pronunciation, and these changes affected the appearance of silent letters. Of course, historical changes have the biggest influence on the development of the language. However, there are some other factors that also turn the phonetic system of the language into the new one. Borrowings…

Based on the report, I would implement the cycles treatment approach. GM is within the appropriate age range to benefit from therapy, as cycles is typically used on children between 2 years, 6 months and 14 years. Cycles is an appropriate approach for children with highly unintelligible speech. The structure of cycles lends itself to treat multiple phonological processes and speech sound errors to quickly make gains in improving overall intelligibility. Additionally, GM’s phonological processes…

conclusion. References The authors have 53 references. The journals that were most referenced in the article are the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, Journal of Child Language, Journal of Phonetics, Journal of Memory and Language, and Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior. The author Munson, B. referenced his own work 8…