Hard to say what an 'English' accent is. But I've just been reading John Peel's* semi-auto-biography, and thought these two extracts might be of some interest....
Shakespeare is often performed in what we understand to be the "Queen's English" but in OP (original pronunciation) it is fascinatingly different as the work...
Hi, I think Jonathan's points highlight the variety of regional pronunciation of English, and the importance role of pron in marking identity. Some strange...
"The vulgar Americans speak much better than the vulgar in Great Britain for a very obvious reason viz. that being much more unsettled, and moving frequently...
Hi there, I've been doing some transcriptions of classes recently, and one thing that has struck me has been just how strange teacher language is in terms of...
Um a question for people up on ICT for pron! In her book from 2002 on Discourse Intonation, Chun says that since speech analysis software can't show smooth...
Hi folks, Ok, Jenkins' Lingua Franca Core, which is quoted all over the place, was based on 30 hours of rather selectively analyzed data. Are there any other...
Hi again, Ok, sometimes I like to throw ideas at the wall to see what sticks, so do tell me I talking rubbish... Most of English morphology is based on one...
I'm a great believer in appropriate articulatory training i.e. according to need, not a trot through the phonemes of English, but was hammered for saying so in...
Dear All, Please find enclosed a CfP for a phonetics conference to be help at the English department in Belgrade in March. *1ST BELGRADE INTERNATIONAL MEETING...
This is just a quick selection of some of the recent postings on pronunciation to TTEdSIG. There is more, but this message is already very long. Dennis ...
Dear members of Pronsig, I've been looking for clear diagrams of the tongue positions of Engish vowels - RP, I suppose, or have PC values been mapped...
Welcome, Dennis. There are (at least?) two types of vowel diagrams - 1 positions of the highest/frontmost part of the tongue for each vowel mapped onto an...
Hi Dennis, ... I too am persuaded that vocal tract self-awareness is necessary in order to produce vowels or consonants which have no visible cues. I wrote an...
John and Madelena, Thank you both for exactly the sort of references I was looking for. It's virtual furniture I was wanting to build, Jonathan, though having...
Some of these might help: Sinclair J & Brazil D 1982 Teacher Talk (OUP) Hewings M 1987 Intonation and feedback in the EFL classroom, in Coulthard M (ed.)...
I can't really answer your question, Alex, but there are interesting and generally rather sceptical articles about ELF in IATEFL Voices 200. Also: I-Chun Kuo:...
Like a lot of things, it depends how native-like learners want to sound. (The equivalents of) those sounds are dental in many (most?) European languages, and...
Thanks for passing this on to us, Dennis. You wrote: "I'd say that acceptable pronunciation is the foundation of communication. What sort of communication can...
Johnathan writes: " I think it's incontrovertible that non-intelligible (not quite the same as non-acceptable) pronunciation is potentially the first ...
Hi Dennis, Thanks for these interesting posts. I think I do have some issues with the idea of practising relevant individual sounds. I don't think it's wholly...
Scott, was it, thanks very much indeed for those interesting and helpful remarks. I think I've been approaching the problem of how to help an individual...
Hi Biljana, Thanks for the event info. I'm afraid I won't be able to make it. I hope some list members will be able to get there. Please let people there know...
Thanks for the refs, Jonathan. I think I'm more concerned by some of the ways that I see Jenkins' work quoted in TESOL books and articles. It seems that some...
Cheers for those Jonathan. Not easy books to find. I did get my hands on a copy of 'Teacher Talk'. I can't help feeling that it's an out-dated approach -...
Hi Dennis, I had a read through the long debate on the teacher training list. Interesting stuff, though there was a lot of 'Bad Science' in my opinion. But I...
Alex, Thanks for writing. I shall certainly try out your mouth work-out, or get Nina to do so when she returns from the Seychelles in two weeks' time. I felt...
I still think some of the 'Birmingham' stuff might be of interest. Or you could look for hints in more general writings such as Tsui: Introducing classroom...
