ens101g eðli tungumálsins how language works pétur knútsson matthew whelpton
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ENS101GEðli tungumálsins
How Language Works
Pétur Knútsson
Matthew Whelpton
ENS101GEðli tungumálsins
How Language Works
Matthew Whelpton
First 6 weeks of the course: SOUNDS
Pétur Knútsson
http://www.hi.is/~peturk/KENNSLA/HLW/index.html
Support page for this part of the course:
J.C. Wells, Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 3rd Edition, 2008
What type of English?
RP – Received Pronunciation
BE – British English
GA – General American
• RP• most accents in
England and Wales
• Australia• New Zealand• South Africa
American typeBritish type• GA• most American
and Canadian accents
• Scotland• Ireland• Some accents
in SW England
American typeBritish type
Various vowel differenceslaugh, half, palm laugh, half, palm
Various consonantal differencescar park car park
car park
water
rhoticAmerican typenon-rhoticBritish type
American
type
British
typeInternational
type
material
International English:
1 Spelling pronunciationmaterialprovidepicture
2 Non-English phoneticsbutterviolent
L1 L2
preliterate: before learning to read
postliterate: after learning to read
“Home” Englishes International English
1Over the past 500 – 600 years, English spelling has not kept up with the changes in pronunciation
write – rightsun – sonboot book blood
2Over the past 300 years, English spelling has been mistakenly “corrected”
important- evidentdoubtPeter’s asking – Peter’s question