| Acknowledgements |
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List of Phonetic Symbols Used in This Book |
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| Foreword: What This Book Is and How to Use It |
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| Practice Exercises and Sentences |
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| Introduction General Principles and Advice; General American English Compared to Standard British English (RP) |
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What is an Accent? How Should the Work Begin? |
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3 | (3) |
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Questions for the Actor to Ask |
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Study the Phonetics of the Parent Language |
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Learn a Little of the Language Itself |
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8 | (1) |
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Study the Four Elements of Any Accent |
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The Physical Positioning of the Vocal Apparatus |
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A Quick Reference: Comparison of the General Position of the Vocal Apparatus During Speech for Some Accents |
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Phonetic (Sound) Changes, Shifts and Substitutions |
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11 | (2) |
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A Quick Reference: ``L,'' Rhotic (R) and ``TH'' Sounds |
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13 | (4) |
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17 | (1) |
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Pitch Patterns (Music, Intonation) |
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18 | (1) |
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Notes on General American English Compared to Standard British English (RP |
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| Part One The British Isles and Commonwealth |
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Standard Upper-Class British RP |
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Some Notes on Chaucer's English |
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44 | (1) |
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Early Modern English: The Standard Speech of Shakespeare's Day |
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45 | (4) |
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Victorian Pronunciation and Some Notes on the Accents of the British Royal Family |
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49 | (3) |
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52 | (2) |
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General London and Cockney |
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Note: See also
Chapter Fourteen under ``London and New York Yiddish Accents Compared'' |
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English Provincial Accents |
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A Quick Reference: Common Phonetic Features of English Provincial Accents |
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62 | (1) |
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63 | (1) |
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The Midlands (Birmingham) |
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64 | (3) |
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Yorkshire, Manchester and the North |
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67 | (3) |
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70 | (2) |
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72 | (2) |
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Bristol, Somerset and the Southwest |
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74 | (2) |
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76 | (2) |
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78 | (2) |
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Irish, Scottish, Welsh Accents |
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80 | (34) |
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80 | (5) |
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Northern Irish (Belfast, Derry) |
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85 | (2) |
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87 | (1) |
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Southern Irish (Dublin, County Cork, etc.) |
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87 | (9) |
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96 | (8) |
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A Quick Reference: Glasgow |
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104 | (4) |
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108 | (6) |
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Accents of the British Commonwealth |
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114 | (22) |
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114 | (4) |
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118 | (3) |
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121 | (4) |
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125 | (2) |
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127 | (7) |
| Part Two North American Accents |
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134 | (2) |
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Regional Accents in the USA, Hawaii, Samoa |
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136 | (43) |
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A Quick Reference: Upper-Class Early 1900s Accents |
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140 | (2) |
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A Quick Reference: Regionalisms Compared |
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142 | (2) |
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144 | (8) |
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152 | (3) |
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155 | (1) |
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156 | (2) |
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158 | (1) |
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The Middle West: Chicago, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Montana, Wisconsin, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Michigan; and the Pacific Northwest |
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158 | (5) |
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163 | (2) |
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165 | (1) |
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165 | (88) |
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Note: See also
Chapter Fourteen under ``London and New York Yiddish Accents Compared,'' |
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171 | (2) |
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173 | (1) |
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Some Notes on Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Pennsylvania Dutch Accents |
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174 | (1) |
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175 | (4) |
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Canada: French and English Canadian Accents |
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179 | (15) |
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181 | (2) |
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183 | (5) |
| Part Three Romance Language Accents |
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Introduction: The Pronunciation of Latin |
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188 | (6) |
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194 | (11) |
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Spanish Accents, Spain, Central and South America |
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205 | (8) |
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213 | (10) |
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Portuguese Accents, Portugal and Brazil |
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223 | (5) |
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228 | (7) |
| Part Four Germanic Language Accents |
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234 | (1) |
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German Accents: Prussian, Bavarian, Viennese |
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235 | (10) |
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245 | (11) |
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London and New York Yiddish Accents Compared |
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253 | (3) |
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256 | (5) |
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Three Scandinavian Languages |
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261 | (18) |
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261 | (6) |
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267 | (3) |
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270 | (8) |
| Part Five Slavic Language Accents |
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278 | (1) |
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279 | (11) |
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A Note on the Pronunciation of Russian Names |
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281 | (1) |
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Correct Stress in the Names of Some of Chekhov's Characters |
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281 | (2) |
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How to Do A Russian Accent |
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283 | (4) |
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287 | (119) |
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(Note: See also
Chapter Thirty-Two for more Russian practice, Lyermontov poem, under ``Georgian'' 406) |
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290 | (5) |
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295 | (4) |
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Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian |
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299 | (10) |
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299 | (4) |
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303 | (5) |
| Part Six Miscellaneous European Accents |
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308 | (1) |
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309 | (5) |
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The Finno-Ugric (Ural-Altaic) and Baltic Languages; Basque; Albanian |
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314 | (23) |
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314 | (4) |
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318 | (2) |
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320 | (3) |
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Estonian, Latvian (Lettish), Lithuanian |
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323 | (4) |
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327 | (3) |
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330 | (6) |
| Part Seven Middle Eastern Accents |
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336 | (1) |
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Arabic Accents: Middle Eastern, Egyptian and Other North African Arabic Accents |
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337 | (5) |
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342 | (5) |
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347 | (7) |
| Part Eight African Accents |
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352 | (2) |
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East and West African Accents: Notes on Sub-Saharan and Ethiopian; Nigerian; Ugandan (Swahili); Zaire and Congo: Lingala |
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354 | (7) |
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South African Accents: British, Dutch (Boer), and Zulu |
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361 | (8) |
| Part Nine Asian Accents |
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368 | (1) |
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Chinese Accents: Mandarin, Cantonese |
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369 | (7) |
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376 | (6) |
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382 | (5) |
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Vietnamese, Burmese, Indonesian and Singaporean, The Philippines (Tagalog), and Thai Accents |
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387 | (16) |
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A General Note About Pitch |
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387 | (1) |
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387 | (3) |
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390 | (3) |
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393 | (4) |
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397 | (3) |
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The Philippines (Tagalog) |
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400 | (3) |
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403 | (14) |
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403 | (3) |
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Georgian (Russian Practice: Lyermontov poem) |
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406 | (4) |
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410 | (2) |
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412 | (5) |
| Selected Bibliography |
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