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	accents - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Accent, in language, special stress emphasis or relative force or loudness given to one syllable of a word, thereby making that syllable more...
		Accent, Musical, rhythmically significant stress on the beat of a given measure of music, often but not always at regular intervals in music...
		ACCENT is an international education organization that works with over 50 American colleges and universities to provide high quality, cost effective study abroad...
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=accents (236 words)

	Regional accents of English speakers information - Search.com
		The prestige or posh accent in England is Received Pronunciation, which originates from the educated speech of southeastern England and is referred to as the Southern English accent.
		The Welsh accent of English is strongly influenced by the phonology of the Welsh language, which 20% of the population of Wales still speak as their first or second language.
		The Ulster accent (Mid Ulster English) is spoken in the U.K. region of Northern Ireland as well as in Counties Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan in the Republic.
	www.search.com /reference/Regional_accents_of_English_speakers (2334 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Accent (linguistics)
		Accents should not be confused with dialects which are varieties of language differing in vocabulary and syntax as well as pronunciation.
		Accents in both the USA, Canada and Australia are derived from the British parent accent, yet North American accents remain more distant, either as a result of time or of external or "foreign" linguistic interaction, such as the Italian accent.
		An accent may be associated with the region in which its speakers reside (a geographical accent), the socio-economic status of its speakers, their ethnicity, their caste or social class, their first language (when the language in which the accent is heard is not their native language), and so on.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Accent_(linguistics) (774 words)

	HLW: Word Forms: Processes: English Accents
		In these accents an older distinction has been lost, but as with /ɑ/ and /ɔ/ in North America, the loss apparently does not seriously interfere with communication because there are not too many pairs of words that end up as homophones with the loss of the distinction.
		Accents can also differ from one another in their phonotactics, that is, in the way in which consonants and vowels combine to make syllables.
		One very noticeable difference between English accents is in the details of how these dimensions interact with the structure and the meanings of sentences, that is, in their intonation.
	www.indiana.edu /~hlw/PhonProcess/accents.html (5787 words)

	Prosody - Accent [KAT109VZLA]
		An accent may be associated with the region in which its speakers reside (a geographical accent), the socio-economic status of its speakers, their ethnicity, their caste or social class, their first language (when the language in which the accent is heard is not their native language), and so on.
		Accent should not be confused with dialect (q.v.), which is a variety of language differing in vocabulary and grammar as well as pronunciation.
		In some societies, a “standard” accent is defined that carries particular prestige in that society; it may or may not be an accent that is widely spoken within the society, and sometimes its prestige derives solely from its association with a specific real or theoretical group within the society.
	kat109vzla.blogg.de /eintrag.php?id=6 (445 words)

	Accent (linguistics)
		An accent is the perceived peculiarities of pronunciation and intonation of a speaker or group of speakers.
		For native speakers, accent is one of the components of a spoken variety, as a dialect.
		A foreign accent is marked by the phonology of other languages (or one other language) which the speaker of an acquired language unconsciously interpret as identical with the phonemes of the spoken language; i.e.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/a/ac/accent__linguistics_.html (156 words)

	UCL Phonetics & Linguistics
		Accent variation is not just a shift in phonetic realisation: accents differ in their inventory of phonological segments and their distribution in the lexicon.
		Accent variation is only one component of variability of a speaker: speakers also differ according to their age, size, sex, voice quality, speaking style or emotion, and recordings are affected by environment, background noise and the communication channel.
		While accent recognition based on accent-specific phone models works well for a small number of varieties of foreign-accented English, it is not clear that the technique would scale well to the problem of dealing with a larger number of more similar regional accents of a language.
	www.phon.ucl.ac.uk /home/mark/accent (1814 words)

	AllRefer.com - accent (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
		accent, in speech, emphasis given a particular sound, called prosodic systems in linguistics.
		In writing, accent is also used to show syllable stress as in Spanish MarIa (acute accent) and Italian pietA (grave accent).
		The word accent in English is also understood to mean the pronunciation and speech patterns that are typical of a speech community; it also denotes the particular manner of uttered expression that lends a special shade of meaning, as when one speaks in harsh or gentle accents.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/accent.html (385 words)

	WikiMiki.net - Accent (linguistics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Accents mark speakers as a member of a group by their pronunciation of the standard language.
		Accent should not be confused with dialect which is a variety of language differing in vocabulary and grammar as well as pronunciation.
		Linguists of the Romanian Academy reacted by declaring that all the Moldovan words were also Romanian words; while in Moldova, the head of the Academy of Sciences' Institute of Linguistics, Ion Bărbuţă, described the dictionary as a politically motivated "absurdity".
	billy.wilder.es.wikimiki.net /es/El+diario+de+Glumov (11640 words)

	Ask A Linguist FAQ: Accents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The modern accents of Australia are more similar to London accents of English than to any other accent from England -- this is probably because the founder generation (in the eighteenth century) had a large component drawn from the poor of London, who were transported to Australia as convicts.
		The accents of New Zealand are similar to Australian accents because a large proportion of the early English-speaking settlers of New Zealand came from Australia.
		Some accents are associated with social groups who have high prestige (the kinds of accents spoken by highly educated people, for example), but there are also many of these high prestige accents, all of them regionally based.
	linguistlist.org /ask-ling/accent.html (2604 words)

	Pitch accent
		In linguistics a distinction is made between stress accent and pitch accent.
		The accent makes a difference in meaning only in a limited number of cases and therefore plays hardly any role in making oneself understood.
		What makes the issue of accents even more complicated is that the use of accents in regional dialects can vary from what is heard in the Tokyo area.
	www.hadamitzky.de /english/lp_pitch_accent.htm (304 words)

	LINGUISTICS AND THE LAW Robert D
		Linguists may inform jurists that speakers of uncommon dialects are not inherently ignorant, and that their form of speech is not inferior or degraded.
		Daniel may also note that historical linguistics is certainly concerned with sound change, but he would hardly say that this is an especial concern of linguistics in general.
		The science of linguistics tells us that there is little likelihood that the voice of the drug dealer is the voice of the defendant, and therefore little likelihood that that the defendant is the drug dealer, little likelihood that he is guilty.
	www.ljp.utk.edu /iafl/IAFL2001/robert_rodman.htm (2276 words)

	BA in Linguistics - Courses
		Students familiar with syntactic reasoning from Linguistics 305 (Introduction to Syntax) have the basic tools to understand a much wider range of phenomena than is considered in 305.
		Linguistics 471 builds on this knowledge by extending our linguistic analysis and theorizing to the details of structures in English as well as to the detailed study of syntactic structures in other languages.
		The goal of the course, however, is to expand our understanding of the reach of linguistic theorizing in three specific areas, some of which are best studied by comparison with other languages.
	ling.rutgers.edu /program/courses_undergrad.html (543 words)

	Powell's Books - Linguistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Recent developments in linguistic theory have led to a reconsideration of the role of optimality in the overall architecture of the grammar.
		A psychoanalyst and linguist recounts an intriguing series of cases where children who cannot or will not speak are brought back into the world of communication....
		This book is part of a series which aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to current research in all branches of the field of linguistics, from syntactic theory to ethnography of speaking, from signed language to the mental lexicon, from language...
	www.powells.com /usedbooks/Linguistics.1.html (884 words)

	LINGUISTICS AND THE LAW Robert D
		Linguists may inform jurists that speakers of uncommon dialects are not inherently ignorant, and that their form of speech is not inferior or degraded.
		Daniel may also note that historical linguistics is certainly concerned with sound change, but he would hardly say that this is an especial concern of linguistics in general.
		The science of linguistics tells us that there is little likelihood that the voice of the drug dealer is the voice of the defendant, and therefore little likelihood that that the defendant is the drug dealer, little likelihood that he is guilty.
	www.outreach.utk.edu /ljp/iafl/IAFL2001/robert_rodman.htm (2276 words)

	Accent (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In linguistics, an accent is a pronunciation characteristic of a particular group of people relative to another group.
		A foreign accent is one that marks someone as a non-native speaker of a language.
		With the Jamaican accent in British youth culture being perceived as "cool." The same is true for the Hispanic accent in America, or the Italian accent and its associations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Accent_(linguistics) (686 words)

	accent linguistics Index - Computer-Technology-Find (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Accent should not be confused with dialect which is a variety of language differing in...
		Accents mark speakers as a member of a group by their pronunciation of the standard language These groups may be geographical socio-economic class ethnic or...
		Hi nouvelleorleans71, Accents are indeed in the domain of linguistics, and the academic community of linguists sides with your friendand#39;s relative view.
	www.computer-technology-find.com /Linguistics/accent-linguistics.html (625 words)

	Speech Accent Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds.
		Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed.
		The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers.
	classweb.gmu.edu /accent (50 words)

	Web resources in Linguistics: MIT Libraries
		The speech accent archive is established to uniformly exhibit a large set of speech accents from a variety of language backgrounds.
		It is meant to be used by linguists as well as other people who simply wish to listen to and compare the accents of different english speakers.
		Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA), from sociological abstracts, inc., is a bibliographic database of the latest developments in the field of linguistics and its various sub-disciplines.
	libraries.mit.edu /guides/subjects/linguistics/web.html (430 words)

	French language information - Search.com
		accents are used sometimes for pronunciation, sometimes to distinguish similar words, and sometimes for etymology alone.
		All other accents are used only to distinguish similar words or for etymological reasons, as in the case of distinguishing the adverbs là and où ("there", "where") from the article la and the conjunction ou ("the fem.
		French is written using the 26 letters of the Latin alphabet, plus five diacritics (the circumflex accent, acute accent, grave accent, diaeresis, and cedilla) and the two ligatures (œ) and (æ).
	www.search.com /reference/French_language (2984 words)

	ACCENT Articles Accent may refer to:a href="/Accent
		Accent is the name of an up-and-coming female hip-hop artist.
		Accent is also the name of a company that makes food seasonings.
		Select accent colors that occur naturally in a tawny Southwestern landscape, including green, both vibrant and muted blues, and the warm-toned yellows and oranges of mountain ranges and mesas bathed in sunlight.
	www.amazines.com /Accent_related.html (2793 words)

	Minimal pair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In fact, this pair differs in voice onset time of the initial consonant as the configuration of the mouth is same for [p] and [b]; however, there is also a possible difference in duration, which visual analysis using high quality video supports.
		Phonemic differentiation may vary between different dialects of a language, so that a particular minimal pair in one accent is a pair of homophones in another.
		This does not necessarily mean that one of the phonemes is absent in the homonym accent; merely that it is not present in the same range of contexts.
	enc.qba73.com /link-Minimal_pair (911 words)

	storytelling: once more, with feeling: accent, dialect, language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		For any linguists dropping by here, this is not meant to open up a discussion on the Black Box or the critical period (both of which I subscribe to, but don't want to debate just here and now).
		In the UK accent is related to class, and geographical origins (whether that be within the UK or outside the UK), and it seems that in the US it's much the same.
		And, as you say, accent is not something one can change (certainly not completely, though some people are better at mimicking accents than others), and some children are born into an environment where they're more likely to be able to copy deluxe versions of the Sound House.
	www.tiedtothetracks.com /storytelling/archives/002444.htm (1749 words)

	accent - Encyclopedia.com
		The word accent in English is also understood to mean the pronunciation and speech patterns that are typical of a speech community; it also denotes the particular manner of uttered expression that lends a special shade of meaning, as when one speaks in harsh or gentle accents.
		Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences; 3/1/2002; Face, Timothy L.; 8377 words;...
		Home Accents Today; 6/1/2004; 3570 words; Accent furniture is one of the fastest growing categories in home accents, with furniture stores setting up accent galleries, home accent specialists carrying a variety, of pieces and even gift stores getting into...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-accent.html (1263 words)

	Colorado Research in Linguistics
		The nuclear accent and the full intonational phrase contour have been the foci of many previous studies of English intonation; this study examines the placement of prenuclear accents, the intonationally prominent elements that precede the nuclear accent.
		The corpus linguistics methodology used in this work provides the framework for phonological and phonetic analyses of approximately 700 multiply accented phrases; they were randomly selected from eight English conversations.
		Colorado Research in Linguistics is the working papers journal of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado.
	www.colorado.edu /linguistics/CRIL/Volume19_Issue1/thesis_GIRAND.htm (397 words)

	accent \| English \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		Accent may refer to:Accent (linguistics), pronunciation common to a certain group of peopleStress (phonology) on a certain syllableAccent markAcute accent (e.g.
		Accent (music), an emphasis placed on a particular noteAccent programming language for computers.
		Accent kernel, an operating system kernelHyundai Accent, car produced by Hyundai Motor CompanyAccent is the name of an up-and-coming female hip-hop artist.Accent is also the name of a company that makes food seasonings.
	www.babylon.com /definition/accent/English (187 words)

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