Pitch accent

Where’re Y’all From?: A Brief History of the Southern United States Dialect Southern American English, more commonly known as the Southern drawl or the Southern accent, is one of the most immediately recognizable of the United States’ many dialects. The dialect can bring many different connotations to mind depending on the preconceptions of the hearer. Those with positive ideas of the South may conjure up images of hard-working, hospitable, family oriented people, whereas others may prejudge…

uttered on a level tone if the speaker did not wish to draw any particular attention to this word, so there is no any noticeable change in pitch. We can indicate that syllable has a level tone by proceeding it with a horizontal line: _gold. • However, if the speaker wished to draw any more attention to gold then it will be uttered in falling tone. This means that pitch of gold would move from high to low. A falling tone is usually used to express certainty or finality. It is represented like:…

Music is composed of many different elements that together give feeling to what we hear. These elements include rhythm, beat, accent, meter, syncopation, tempo, pitch, dynamics, tone color, overtone, scales, melody, harmony, texture, tonality, and mode. Just like with chemical elements, combining musical elements will create something new and exciting, and different combinations will give something distinct to the music. All sixteen elements mentioned are equally important and together…

changes in pitch and settle upon a melody that works. Play your recording and listen to each note in your song. Use a "hunt and peck" technique on the piano when first learning to notate your ideas. Take an ear training course to develop your ear so that in the future, you can avoid the need to resort to a piano. Play chromatically by starting on middle C until you find the first note of your piece. Play the second note in your recording and then match its pitch on the piano. Write this pitch…

throughout the video. It will include examples of different phonological, lexical, and syntactic features, and what makes them important to my analysis. The video ‘Graham Norton's 'Red Chair' uses many phonological features, these include the pitch, accent…

good job by grabbing the attention of the audience. It has capture audience till the end; yes there were some parts that can be overlooked such as perfect accent that was spoken. Based on the story, the language or accent involvement on this play were Dutch, France, Spanish, Pirate Accent and British English. The play was lacking on the accent but it can be overlooked since the acting was good. At last this play was more appropriate for all ages because it gives message to be stronger, fight…

expression. Music notation helps you to judge the landscape of a particular song by using various dynamics and expressive techniques directed in the musical notation and this may help to specify with what kind of voice you should be using, what particular pitch you should be singing in and also provides you with the tempo. Early, intensive, and careful vocal training as well as thorough musical understanding can helps in the long run when trying to interpret a song. Dynamics are implemented in…

What would you do if you went back in time to 1864? Would you want to stay or go back home? Mac Dougan, the main character in the historical fiction book A Pitch In Time chose to stay for a while then go back home to 2005. This is a slow moving book that gives a lot of details about standing up for yourself, I would recommend this to people who like historical fiction and sports and for ages 10-12. When Mac moved from Georgia to Michigan, he tumbled off of his bike and woke up in the…

I have chosen the project option Speech Styles of the comedian Kristen Wiig. The reason I decided to pick her as my topic was because I thought it would be interesting to see how different and how similar she is in the Californian skit when compared to her everyday life. In this paper, idiolect differences, phonological differences, and non-verbal communications between Kristen Wiig’s Californians Skits from Saturday Night Live, will be discussed when compared to her interview from the show…

Wow was I surprise by the results! Before starting the “Where is the speaker from” assignment, Utilizing my personal knowledge from living in multiple states in the U.S. accompanied by my career choices that have immersed me into diverse multi-cultural groups. I thought I got this, Wrong! (only two correct). Therefore, I must ask, am I not listening, is my hearing that bad, has my personal experience made me immune to hearing dialectic differences? The answer, I decided, is my hearing is not…