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	Received Pronunciation
		Received Pronunciation, or RP for short, is the instantly recognisable accent often described as ‘typically British’.
		The phrase Received Pronunciation was coined in 1869 by the linguist, A J Ellis, but it only became a widely used term used to describe the accent of the social elite after the phonetician, Daniel Jones, adopted it for the second edition of the
		Such terms are inadequate when applied to Received Pronunciation, although as with any variety of English, RP encompasses a wide variety of speakers and should not be confused with the notion of ‘posh’ speech.
	www.bl.uk /learning/langlit/sounds/find-out-more/received-pronunciation (1041 words)

	Received Pronunciation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Received Pronunciation (RP) is a form of pronunciation of the English language which has been the prestige British accent (see prestige dialect).
		According to Fowler's Modern English Usage (1965), the term is "the Received Pronunciation".
		Received Pronunciation was also sometimes referred to as the Queen's English, because it is spoken by the Queen, or BBC English because it was traditionally used by the BBC.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Received_Pronunciation (1570 words)

	RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION – FREE RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION Information \| Encyclopedia.com: Find RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION ...
		PRONUNCIATION regarded as correct or proper, especially by arbiters of usage: ‘the theoretically received pronunciation of literary English’; (A. Ellis, On Early English Pronunciation, vol.
		It is often informally referred to by the British middle class as a BBC accent or a public school accent and by the working class as talking proper or talking posh.
		Many British people dislike Received Pronunciation, usually arguing that it is a mark of privilege and (especially among the Scots, Northern Irish, and Welsh) of social domination by the (especially southern) English.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O29-RECEIVEDPRONUNCIATION.html (1771 words)

	English Teaching Forum Online – Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
		Pronunciation has often been viewed as a skill in second language learning that is most resistant to improvement and therefore the least useful to teach.
		The effectiveness of this pronunciation training programme was measured through 74 student responses to a questionnaire administered after students had undergone between one and four semesters of pronunciation training in the matriculation programme.
		Pronunciation was viewed in rather practical terms, and none of the students defined good pronunciation by referring to an exonormative standard.
	exchanges.state.gov /forum/vols/vol39/no3/p10.htm (2670 words)

	RECEIVED – FREE RECEIVED Information \| Encyclopedia.com: Find RECEIVED Research
		When used of language, received usually refers to what is accepted and approved in educated, especially middle-class society: ‘The tip of the tongue for received English is not so advanced towards the teeth or gums, as for the continental sound’ (A. Ellis, On Early English Pronunciation, vol.
		The price of a call may save a lot ; Earlier this week I received a telephone call from a reader who said she was "ringing with trepidation" and fearful of being a nuisance with just a simple query.
		on a string, her theory was generally received with either hostility or a lack of understanding...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O29-RECEIVED.html (789 words)

	Untitled Document
		What should be drawn to our attention is that, in the process of communication, pronunciation (of both segmental and suprasegmental (prosodic) elements) is of paramount importance, since successful communication cannot take place without correct pronunciation (Celce-Murcia, Brinton and Goodwin, 1996)-poorly pronounced segments and suprasegments may have the result of disorienting the listener and inhibiting comprehension.
		Of course, the notion of "correctness" with regard to pronunciation is not tantamount to adherence to "native speaker" norms or Received Pronunciation (RP) rules.
		In other words, 'the attainment of accurate pronunciation in a second language is a matter substantially beyond the control of educators'.
	www.developingteachers.com /articles_tchtraining/pronpf_dimitrios.htm (1469 words)

	Pronunciation - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		MSN Encarta columnist Martha Brockenbrough navigates the labyrinth of English pronunciations, and pokes a little fun along the way.
		For much of the 20th century in Great Britain, the speech of educated persons could be classified as Received Standard English.
		Pronunciation refers to: the way a word or a language is usually spoken; the manner in which someone utters a word.
	encarta.msn.com /Pronunciation.html (183 words)

	Received Pronuncation \| Antimoon Forum (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Originally, though, Received Pronunciation was based off the native dialects of the Home Counties in southern England, but was not identical to such.
		I think the very word "received" suggests that this pronunciation is not naturally acquired but learned at schools, universities etc. This accent was used as a tool of social discrimination to distinguish the educated high class people in Britain from all the rest.
		My dictionary defines Oxford English as: "That form of the received pronunciation of English supposed to be typical of Oxford University and regarded by many (and this is the funny bit!) as affected and pretentious".
	www.antimoon.com /forum/t332-0.htm (1635 words)

	Received pronunciation - 25 November 2000 - New Scientist
		If your pronunciation is suddenly different from that of the people around you, you won't be understood.
		In Australia and New Zealand, the biggest divergence from English "standard received pronunciation" is in the vowel system.
		In the early 19th century, there was a tendency in southern England, where many colonists came from, to pronounce the vowel in "bad" (known to phoneticians as RP Vowel No 4 or RP 4) in a more "closed" position (with the mouth less open) so it sounded more like "bed".
	www.newscientist.com /backpage.ns?id=lw713 (1222 words)

	Differences in pronunciation between American English and Received Pronunciation
		Received Pronunciation (henceforth referred to as RP) is likewise difficult to define, but in his book English Segmental Phonetics for Finns, Ian Morris-Wilson defines RP as “the standard pronunciation of the educated Englishman”(14).
		In these days of political correctness, the RP pronunciation of harassment has become increasingly popular in AE as well, because the AE pronunciation includes a syllable which distinctly resembles the pronunciation of ass, and that is considered by some to be inappropriate (Hopkins).
		The distinction between the nasal vowel and the long vowel is evident in pronunciation.
	www.uta.fi /~sanni.siurua/ame1.html (1419 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Magazine \| Plain speaking
		So synonymous was Received Pronunciation (RP) with the broadcaster that it also came to be known as BBC English.
		Amid the trend for regional inflections and the seemingly unstoppable spread of the classless so-called Estuary English, even the Queen - once the gatekeeper of RP - is said to have changed her pronunciation.
		Received pronunciation is in fact still in wide use, it is just that the vowels are flatter than before.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/magazine/4166036.stm (1427 words)

	Part I: Teaching Pronunciation
		Finally, the overwhelming majority of Amity teachers are not native speakers of the British "RP" accent ("Received Pronunciation", also known as "BBC English" or "the Queen's English") which is the accepted English standard in China in most textbooks, including Junior and Senior English for China.
		The ideal approach to student pronunciation problems is for you to work individually with each student, listening for problems, explaining the proper pronunciation (intonation, etc.), modelling correct pronunciation, and listening to the student practice.
		Keeping pronunciation accurate while reading a text aloud is more difficult than repeating after a teacher, but it is still easier for students than maintaining correct pronunciation in free conversation because they can focus their attention on pronunciation rather than grammar or word choice.
	www.amityfoundation.org /page.php?page=258 (2018 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| RIP RP
		Received pronunciation is all about jaw muscle power and tongue control.
		Prolonged speech using received pronunciation can amount to a lengthy and potentially painful gym work-out for the tongue.
		Received pronunciation as far as much of the rest of the world is concerned, would sound much more like Miss Jean Brodie, than the young Queen Elizabeth.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/1081717.stm (592 words)

	The Spectator.co.uk
		For example, in a railway station of my acquaintance, the pre-recorded messages over the public address system are intoned by a man who uses received pronunciation, but who, when he pronounces the word Newcastle, uses the short rather than the long ‘a’, the long ‘a’ being what would come most naturally to him.
		Now the only children who are taught received pronunciation as the route to social advancement are the children of Indian and West African immigrants, and those of the respectable wing of the West Indian community.
		The attack on received pronunciation is only a particular instance of the relativist notion that there is no higher and lower, no better and worse, no correct and incorrect, and therefore nothing to aim at or aspire to.
	www.lewrockwell.com /spectator/spec159.html (950 words)

	Asian EFL Journal: English Language Teaching and Research Articles
		They concluded that pronunciation practice in class had little effect on the learner's pronunciation skills and moreover, 'that the attainment of accurate pronunciation in a second language is a matter substantially beyond the control of the educators,' Suter and Purcell (1980, 286).
		The current research and the current trend reversal in the thinking of pronunciation teaching shows there is a consensus that a learner's pronunciation in a foreign language needs to be taught in conjunction with communicative practices for the learner to be able to communicate effectively with native speakers.
		Overall, students valued pronunciation as an important part of their instruction, and wanted more correction both within and outside the classroom, and demanding more emphasis be placed on the pronunciation component within the course.
	www.asian-efl-journal.com /june2003subpr.php (4444 words)

	Received Pronunciation
		It is proposed to use the term Received Standard for that form which I would probably agree in considering the best, that form which has the widest currency and is heard with practically no variation among speakers of the better class all over the country.
		It may be especially considered as the educated pronunciation of the metropolis, of the court, the pulpit, and the bar.
		The standard pronunciation used is the one recorded in the dictionaries.
	www.yaelf.com /rp.shtml (2666 words)

	Pronunciation Page
		Pronunciation Tip of the Day (if you are not in CILL you will need a special font to see this)
		CILL tutors do not believe that it is good to correct everything because we know you are not studying everything about pronunciation, that would take a long time.
		We believe it is better for you to work on one small area of pronunciation at a time.
	elc.polyu.edu.hk /cill/pronunci.htm (938 words)

	The Pronunciation of English: Fourth edition - Cambridge University Press
		This edition of The Pronunciation of English incorporates the final results of Daniel Jones’ lifelong study of English pronunciation usage.
		The Pronunciation of English was written originally as a detailed description of the phonetics of English, presented from the point of vew of the native English-speaking student.
		This is followed by illustrative texts in phonetic transcription of Received Pronunciation and several regional varieties, Scottish and American pronunciation and reconstructions of Shakespearian and Chaucerian speech.
	www.cambridge.org /elt/elt_projectpage.asp?id=2500360 (190 words)

	Received pronunciation - WordReference Forums
		"Received Pronunciation" is a term used to designate a type of spoken (British) English.
		RP is the theoretically received pronunciation of literary English (1869).
		RP is often referred to as the spoken embodiment of a variety, or varieties, of English known variously as the Queen's English, the King's English, BBC English, Oxford English and Public School English.
	forum.wordreference.com /showthread.php?t=338132 (1060 words)

	Glossary
		The best example of RP speech is that used by BBC news readers and announcers and recently the term "RP" has become interchangable with "BBC English." RP is so common as a title, it will be some time before it will be completely abandoned.
		In rhotic varieties of English pronunciation, the "r" consonant is pronounced wherever it occurs in spelling and, depending on the accent or dialect, in varying strengths.
		In non-rhotic varieties of English pronunciation, the "r" consonant is pronounced only when it occurs before a vowel.
	www.andrewjack.com /glossary.htm (340 words)

	Accents and dialects of the UK
		Many of the vowel sounds she uses have a traditional RP ring, but she also uses a number of pronunciations characteristic of contemporary RP.
		It is not, for instance, a feature of any US accent and thus one of many examples that British English and American English, in terms of pronunciation at least, are diverging rather than converging.
		In each case listen carefully to the intonation pattern she uses and focus particularly on the highlighted word and the underlined syllable.
	www.bl.uk /learning/langlit/sounds/text-only/received-pronunciation/london (1790 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - RP - Received Pronunciation
		Today, RP is used by linguists as a 'standard' pronunciation of British English for study purposes and also by teachers of English as a Foreign Language so schools can teach a standard form of spoken British English.
		RP is seen as the form of English pronunciation most widely recognised and understood within the British national community.
		This is not to say that alternative pronunciations are to be regarded as wrong or invalid as such.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A852798 (1320 words)

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		ESL Pronunciation Work This is a very good website with many examples covering almost all topics of pronunciation.
		English Pronunciation Practice This very interesting site features the common pronunciation problems in English by Language Background, such as common issues involving English sounds of native speakers of Chinese, Japanese or Korean.
		English pronunciation for ESL student There are some wave files covering 5 topics about English pronunciation: English is not Phonetic, word stress in English, sentence stress in English, how to pronounce –ed, and homophones.
	www.acsu.buffalo.edu /~bmk4/AEPlinks.html (2053 words)

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