10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACCENTLESS»
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Prosodic Typology II: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing
15.3.3 Accentless dialects The accentless dialects include, among many others,
the Kumamoto and Omuta dialects spoken on Kyushu Island, the Fukui dialect
spoken in the Hokuriku region, the Yamagata, Sendai, and Koriyama dialects ...
2
PRICAI 2008: Trends in Artificial Intelligence: 10th Pacific ...
In order to effectively dealwith foreignwords, acronyms and non-alphabets,
weconsider only accentless terms which may correspondto some Vietnamese
terms.Toobtain the accentless vocabulary, wede-accentthetermsin a Vietnamese
...
Tu-Bao Ho, Zhi-Hua Zhou, 2008
3
Perspectives on American English
(It is not true, of course, that such 'accentless' speech is attributed to the American
masses by Englishmen; in fact, they are usually regarded as having the very
strongest of 'accents'.) As has frequently been pointed out (McDavid 1966) there
is ...
4
The Age Factor in Second Language Acquisition: A Critical ...
Scovel assumes that the critical period for the acquisition of accentless speech is
closed off at or around age 12. He predicts that those who start to learn a second
language after that period will never be able to 'pass themselves off as native ...
David Michael Singleton, Zsolt Lengyel, 1995
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An Invitation to Cognitive Science: Language
An accent is realized as a fall in pitch just after the accented syllable, while an
accentless word stays high to the end. It is therefore said that the final- syllable
accent and the accentless case are usually pronounced in the same way;
however, ...
Daniel N. Osherson, Lila R. Gleitman, 1995
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Papers in Laboratory Phonology: Volume 1, Between the ...
McCawley and Kohno have taken this as indicating that an accentless minor
phrase may be incorporated into another adjacent minor phrase. We will assume
this analysis for now (but see note 5). The important question for us is which
nouns ...
John Kingston, Mary E. Beckman, 1990
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Issues in Japanese Phonology and Morphology
Also, note that not only in accented quadrimoraic words but also in lexically
accentless words, the two options of pitch sharing (to share or not to share in the
sense explained above) are available. Neither (3d) nor (3e) above bear a lexical
...
Jeroen Maarten van de Weijer, Tetsuo Nishihara, 2001
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Sense and Sensitivity: How Focus Determines Meaning
That is the issue we will explore in this chapter.4 We start off by reviewing the
evidence for purely pragmatic theories: first, in §5.2, cases of accentless focus,
and second, in §5.3, cases of association with presupposition. We then turn, in §
5.4, ...
David I. Beaver, Brady Z. Clark, 2009
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A Practical Grammar of the Sanskrit Language: Arranged with ...
The name anuddtta is confined to the neutral, indifferent, accentless or
monotonous tone represented by the flat horizontal line. The expression
anuddttatara has been adopted to designate the lowest sound of all or that
immediately preceding ...
Sir Monier Monier-Williams, 1864
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The Phonology of Japanese
And it is useful, indeed, to be able to account for the linguistic continuity21 that
one observes between dialects such as Sendai Japanese (accentless),
Kagoshima Japanese (one-pattem accent), and Ibuki-jima Japanese (with a five-
way ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ACCENTLESS»
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Voices: Yes, I Speak Spanish and Proper English
While some have proposed that you can have an "accentless" second language if you learn it before age 6 and some have extended it to the ... «NBCNews.com, Jun 15»
My Vassar College Commencement Speech for the Class of 2015
And to really sell it, I'll be delivering my speech in a thick, sometimes- hard-to-understand Greek accent, instead of the crystal clear, accentless ... «Pulse, May 15»
Minster wows crowds with Denglisch
... for more than his linguistic ability, pointing out that "no one [in the USA] expects foreign politicians to be able to speak accentless English.". «The Local.de, Apr 15»
Anglos lead the way in haredi accelerator
Indeed, a majority of winners on stage that evening spoke in accentless Hebrew. “As the haredi community tries to assert itself in the start-up ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Apr 15»
Grandma's Tales: On Vietnam, Memories and Transformation
... and arms was that she said it in English, I mean accentless California English. I mean the way Mrs. Collier, our neighbor, the English teacher, ... «Huffington Post, Apr 15»
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, The Boston Marathon Bomber, Has the Most …
Of them all, he had made the smoothest transition to American life, spoke near-accentless English, had a wide circle of friends, and had even ... «Vanity Fair, Mar 15»
Troublemaker for Tyrants
Half-Norwegian, half-Venezuelan (born and raised in Caracas, he speaks accentless American English), he descends from assorted ... «The Weekly Standard, Mar 15»
Fidelma Cook: The first sun of the year
Again, I'll listen and smile, enjoying his clear accentless French - then share on his bounty. All these things I thought of as I sat outside, ... «Herald Scotland, Mar 15»
From Bulgaria to L.A.: The Incredible Journey of Kan Wakan's …
“It was a massive culture shock,” says Linev, bearded and accentless, wearing a beanie and a dotted button-up. “I didn't know anything about ... «LA Weekly, Mar 15»
Antigone review – Juliette Binoche is more hysteric than heroine
... acquired a new translation from innovative Canadian poet and classicist Anne Carson, but although Binoche's English is close to accentless, ... «The Guardian, Mar 15»
