Speech Patterns

Suprasegmental/Paralinguistic Features
  American English
 Australian English
 British English
 Canadian English
 Indian English
World Englishes  Irish English
 New Zealand English
 Scottish English
 Spanglish
 Welsh English
 Zimbabwean English
  Pronunciation
 Accent
 Dialect
 Idiolect
Speech Patterns  Stress
 Intonation
 Pauses and Hesitation Markers
 Pace
 Volume
 The way in which a word or a language is spoken

Pronunciation  Standard English – Received Pronunciation (RP)

 International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
IPA Phonemic
Chart
 Admirable Heir
Advertisement Healthy
Asthma Housing
Attaché case Missile
Commonly Automobile Paradise
Calcium Petrol
Mispronounced Conservative Postpone
Words Consume Sewerage
Corps Suggestion
Determine Wealthy
Pronunciation is
IMPORTANT!
  A distinctive way of pronouncing a language, especially one
associated with a particular country, area, or social class

 British Accents:
• Geordie
Accent • Cockney
• Welsh
• Midland
• TOWIE
• Estuary
TOWIE Accent
  A dialect is a form of a language/linguistic variety that
is specific to a particular region or group

 A Northern American might say, “hello.”

 A Southern American might say, “howdy.”

Dialect  Someone from the East Coast might say, “What’s poppin’?”
 Someone from the South might say,” How’r y’ll?”

 In Standard English, one could say "I haven't got any change".
In a non-standard dialect, this sentence might be, "I ain't got
no change".
  An individual's distinctive and unique use of language,
including speech. This unique usage encompasses
vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation
Idiolect  President George H.W. Bush say ‘’buhfore” instead of “before”
 Some may be pronouncing Aunt as “Ont”
 How can you forget actress Meera’s “Aaf Course” instead “of course”!
  Mark of Stress

Stress  Degrees of Stress

 Types of Stress
  It is the music of languages: the rise and fall

 “How you doin’?” vs “How are you doing?”

 Intonation matters:
Intonation  Asking questions
 Listing things
 Expressing feelings
 Stressing the importance of something
Reading with
intonation
  Natural and necessary parts of fluency
 Repetition of same sounds
Pauses and  Repetition of same words
Hesitation  Repetition of same phrases

 Watch the movie “The King’s Speech”

Musharaf’s Story
Pace & Volume  You better tell me…