Pitch accent

they said that practicing these suprasegmental factors (speech rate, pause, stress, and intonation) would help in improving the oral proficiency of nonnative speakers. 10. What did you learn about SLA from reading this article? It was interesting to see the role of other factors than syntax and phonetics (in the sense of only how to pronounce the sound) had to contribute to proficiency levels. It was insightful to see how suprasegmental factors had an important role of determining fluency and proficiency. Nevertheless, this stressed the idea that each language has a very specific set of rules. Not only for grammar or semantic, but even with pitch, stress and tone. Studying a language is way more than studying its grammatical aspects or the meaning of words, languages reflect cultures and life styles. This is why they differ in pitch and stress. Furthermore, this study weakens my belief in structural grammar and the old fashion way of teaching, and depends my belief that language can’t be only taught in a classroom.…

Introduction A sound can be separated into two components; envelope and find structure. The envelope is an outline of the waveform that reflects the fluctuation of amplitude of a sound. The envelope can be thought of as the overall morphology of the sound wave given. In a sound wave, the fine structure is the sound within the envelope. The fine structure can be thought of as the more detailed variation of the sound wave because the sound itself moves at a much faster pace than the overall…

Description and Analysis of some features of the Hull accent and dialect and how these features differ from Standard English I. Introduction When foreign learners come to the UK at the first time, they are usually surprised to discover that the native speakers seem to speak faster than expected and be different in many ways from the English the foreign learners have learned. It is possibly differences of pronunciation that will directly shock them, foreign learners may also pay attention to…

it, beside them. By showing my students that I struggle to get started, or get stuck, or even make spelling or grammar mistakes when I am drafting a paper (gasp), it puts the teacher on a more even playing field with the students, making them feel more comfortable, that taking risks in my classroom is expected. Sharing something one has written can put even the most confident adults in a state of vulnerability. I make sure that I always do what I am asking my students to do, putting me in the…

To begin the Constant Stimuli experiment, the lab recruited three subjects including two undergraduate students from the UCI Psychology department subject pool and the author, to finish the tests. All subjects were randomly distributed for gender but most of them were aged from 19 to 21. The subjects, included the author, can be considered naïve because none of them had done similar experiments before. All subjects were informed by the researcher about the purpose of the experiment and they held…

Have you ever wondered what instruments the Greeks had? Well, here is three questions you may ask. How much is the floyera like the flute today? How were the Karamouzis made? And, What is the Daouli? The floyera is a recorder like instrument. Unlike the flute you blow out of the top like a recorder, but it still has all the keys a flute. Yes this is just a fun fact, but the floyera in Greece is also a pastry. This is because it is shaped as the instrument. The main reason why the flute is the…

 Musical Notes Can Count Jerri Pineda Abstract— The development of mathematics involves early connections with music and the basic physics of sound. Mathematics is present in the natural occurrence of the ratios and intervals found in music and modern tuning systems. As people age, their hearing becomes dull and require change in the music ratio and interval to hear the same tune as when young. In like manner, the interval increases until a perfect pitch is heard. In this paper we will examine…

the first play, ‘The Pretentious Young Ladies’, a stunning performance by P.M. Williams in the role of ‘La Grange’ overshadowed quite wonderful acts of others. The character’s charming behavior had me believe in his quest to romanticize with one of the pretentious young ladies in the play. The projection of his voice was good enough for the audience, but it is in his vocal variety and his articulation, that he shines. Every words were uttered by him quite clearly, and his variations in pitch of…

stepped in for a challenge, winning the ball, and clashing knees with my opponent. My knee began to swell and I thought it was just a typical bruise, no big deal. The game continued and I continued to push myself for the team. Moments later, it was my turn to step up for a free kick. As I planted my left leg into the turf, my quad and patellar tendon worked together and pulled in opposite directions, popping my kneecap horizontally right down the middle. I laid there for what seemed like…

As a young child, I can recall my grandparents taking me to a local ice cream parlor in Columbus, Indiana called Zaharakos. The ice cream parlor is most famous for it’s old fashioned ice cream and it’s pipe organ. While you were eating ice cream, you could sit and listen to the pipe organ play in the background on a hot, summer day. In the reading about the pipe organ, it mentions that one of the different ways it makes different sounds is through flue or reed pipes. My question would be, what…