ipl-logo

Spoken Standard Language Essay

1459 Words6 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: What are the standardization of English language

English is considered the international language so often called “the language of communication”. One of the reasons is English gets ranked first in the easiest languages in the world, because its four aspects among six ones including verb conjugation, irregular verbs, noun and adjectival forms and written versus spoken forms that belong to grammar are easier than other languages like French, Spanish, German, Greek, etc. (see Lia Nigro, TOEIC USA Team) (1), even that according to Robert McCrum et al. (1992), English "… has a grammar of great simplicity" (2). Nevertheless, English has no standard form, therefore, non- native English learners have plenty of difficulties in encountering different English accents and dialects, typically between …show more content…

In other words, the term “accent” which consists of the features of pronunciation that distinguish where a speaker comes from, regionally or socially (George Yule, 2006, 2010) (3) indicates how widely various the so- called standard language is used in spoken style between American English and British English. Spoken standard language is often found in the most of sound mass media such as: BBC, CNN, VOA, films, programs/ programmes, etc. According to Martyn Francis Wakelin, pronunciation is the notable difference of accents and is identified as Received Pronunciation (RP), also addressed Oxford English, the Queen's English or BBC English, which refers to the standard pronunciation of British English and General American (GA), which is often recognized as the standard pronunciation of American English. The distinction of pronunciation in British and American English are accessed via the shift of vowels and consonants.
In terms of consonant, first of all, Paco Gómez demonstrates that (5), the existence of rhotic accent which is produced as a retroflex approximant (as cited in John C. Wells, 2000) is one of the most remarkable distinctions between British and American accent, since British English becomes non- rhotic when letter ‘r’ is in a monosyllabic and after a vowel or at the end of words, whereas rhotic accent only occurs in American

Show More
Related
977 Words | 4 Pages

He travels in several region and he listen to the accents, pronunciation they use it disappearing little by little. He says, “one of my purpose was to listen, to hear speech, accent, speech rhythms, overtones and emphasis. For the speech is so much more than word and sentences. I listen everywhere. it seemed to me that regional speech is in the process of disappearing, not gone but going (154).

Read More
801 Words | 4 Pages

Khan 1 Zeeshan Khan Spanish 2 Mr. Ramirez 21ST October, 2015 Innocent Voices Essay Luis Mandoki’s ‘Innocent Voices’ gives us a close look at the troubles faced by many families in El Salvador during the civil war times. The director makes sure to hook his audience to his presentation and starts introducing the difficulties one by one. One of the first ones we see is the absence of an ideal leader, mostly a father, from most families. As soon as the audience feels sorrow for the families, the lens changes over to a group of army men raiding a school to take away kids for training. The scenes cause the audience to understand the violent and stressing environment the kids go through.

Read More
738 Words | 3 Pages

Given that phonological characteristics could vary from different languages,speakers are likely to carry over the phonemic habits of their mother tongue into their second language,resulting in a particular and distinctive accent. This essay would give justifications to such proclivity by evaluating 'German Mother' in 'The Book Thief' who is a L1 speaker of German yet L2 speaker of English through contrastive analysis. There are three phonological elements that are presented throughout the excerpt of the movie. The first one is the deliberate pronunciation of /ɹ /in English as /r/ in German before vowels ,as marked in 'dragging' (00:01:03), 'true'(00:01:12) and 'dressed'(00:03:21) .In

Read More
548 Words | 3 Pages

Working memory is simply put that it is the faculty for reproducing past events and past learning, psychologists have overtime differed different ideas how the working memory works, generally they have agreed that this involves three basic activities which include retrieval which would be involving a recovery of information when we need it later, storage retaining memories for future use and also encoding which is simply getting information into memory in the first place. A number of studies have shown that executive functions develop at different rates which would be developmental fractionation for example Welsh et al (1991) it was reported that different developmental rates for three to twelve year olds using a better of executive function measures. Recent searches

Read More
508 Words | 3 Pages

After Independence, the way British spoke English changed dramatically, while Americans largely maintained the traditional rhotic accent (Soniak). The dominance of English in American mainstream society also shapes the immigrants’ way of life. More Hispanics learn English in order to gain an advantage in their career and assimilate into American society (Thompson). Percentage of young Hispanic who speak English proficiently has soared since 2000

Read More
261 Words | 2 Pages

The results from the Labov and Trudgill observations really surprised. In New York City, it was found that the higher a person’s socio-economic status, the more likely it was that they would pronounce the postvocalic /r/ sound. If they were of lower status, they wouldn’t pronounce the sound. However, in Reading, England, it was found that the higher class individuals didn’t pronounce the /r/ sounds that their American counterparts were known for. It was pretty interesting how word sounds could differ depending on the social class, and even among the people in the same class, their words could sound the opposite of each other.

Read More
602 Words | 3 Pages

Equal Protection for English Language Learners Any student migrating from another country or lives in a home where English is not a first language or no English is spoken faces many problems. Even in the United States where the population of immigrants is in millions. There are many students who considered as English language learners (ELL). Sometimes, these students are treated unfairly in the school environment and are at a disadvantage due to language barriers.

Read More
511 Words | 3 Pages

The AP Language and Composition class at Silver Creek is a great program that although challenging seems like it would be a great class to participate in and learn from. Although English isn't my best subject, I think that this class will really help elevate my knowledge and skill, and I will have room to grow. The main reasons I have for joining this class are to challenge myself and to improve my skills for working in the future. My first main reason for joining this program is that I would like to challenge myself, especially in English.

Read More
881 Words | 4 Pages

The words “prestes” y “erez” from the sentence (II) and (XII), the ‘speaker A’ articulates “s” as voiceless alveolar fricative /s/, [pɾestes] and [eɾes], whereas the ‘speaker B’ articulates it as voiced alveolar fricative /z/, [pɾe:stez] and [erez]. When I was decreasing the speed of the audio, I noticed that my Mexican speaker articulates /z/ at the end of a word ending with “s” and sometimes with the articulation of /s/, while my Colombian speaker pronounced mostly with /s/ with the exception of the word [maz] “más”, this word also applies for my Mexican speaker. The word “más”in the sentence number (V) and (XI), the consonant “s” is pronounced as voiced alveolar fricative /z/ because the vowel before “s” has a diacritic mark, where it is used as a denotation of some phonological

Read More
596 Words | 3 Pages

Therefore, Dr. Giselle is able to provide an adequate analysis of the research data. Stephanie L. Hensel is a researcher in the Department of Education at the University of Michigan with an expertise in phonology, morphology, and sociolinguistics. The audience of the article is likely people who are interested in the field of sociolinguistics, particularly AAE. Overall, the article is more informative that

Read More
840 Words | 4 Pages

Dialect is the language used by specific regions, class and social groups. It involves grammar and spelling. In comparison, accent is the way in which we pronounce words, the differences in vowels and consonant sounds, syllabic stress. Considering this, I rewrote a spoken narrative from ‘Humans of New York’ in a Yorkshire accent and dialect. Using words such as ‘gallack’ instead of saying ‘when we left’, relating to the dialect of Yorkshire, and rewriting words such as ‘theear’ instead of ‘there’ to exaggerate the Yorkshire accent.

Read More
502 Words | 3 Pages

In England many people enjoy listening to a wide variety of music especially at festivals or concerts. Many great Musicians came from England. The US and England both share the same language, but as you might have already known, they speak with an accent. Some accents may be easy to understand but others are very difficult to pick up. Football/soccer, rugby, cricket, netball, darts, tennis, and rowing are very popular sports in England.

Read More
1421 Words | 6 Pages

The United States is a place of freedom. We are a mixing pot that unifies as one. Many religions, cultures, and languages make their home in the Unites States. Many foreigners see the U.S. as an opportunity to seek better lives and education, but when it comes to foreigners and native-born non-English speakers that do not yet know English, it becomes a little more difficult to go about an average day let alone make a better future. Children in school often become English Language Learners, or ELL, to assimilate to the American standards.

Read More
642 Words | 3 Pages

The last major phonetic or phonetical variation I was able to observe and transcribe in my IPA transcriptions above was that Yash had a few times during out interviews where he delete the final constants off of words he pronouncing in English. This can be seen in my IPA transcription of the interviews when Yash deletes and does not pronounce the final G when saying he felt most comfortable in his car driving. VI. Morphological and Semantic Variation and Grammatical Errors

Read More
1329 Words | 6 Pages

CHARACTERISTICS OF OLD ENGLISH: Old English was spoken by the people of the Angles, Saxon and Jutes. The period of this language was from 400 AD to 1100 AD. It is completely not understandable by the English people of modern era. The main basic characteristics of Old English are as follows: PRONUNCIATION: The main characteristic of Old English language is its pronunciation which is completely different from the pronunciation of modern English.

Read More

More about Spoken Standard Language Essay

Related Topics

Open Document