3.4.2
Introduction to Accents & Dialects
Accents and Dialect - Introduction
Accents and Dialect - Introduction
One of the most obvious ways we can tell differences in language is by listening to how people pronounce things.
Link with being raised
Link with being raised
- How you speak (generally) indicates where you were raised.
- For example, you can tell if someone’s from Newcastle because they will (generally) speak with a Geordie accent and use terms like ‘pet’.
Accent and dialect
Accent and dialect
- In linguistics, we use the terms accent and dialect.
- We say that dialect is the words that are fairly unique to that area.
- The term accent describes how we say words. Everybody speaks with an accent, even if they think they don’t. You will often hear people say that they ‘don’t have an accent’, but this is not true – people have difficulties understanding that they have an accent because they believe that they speak ‘normally’.
Writing about accents
Writing about accents
- Before we can look at accent, we need to look at how you write about accents for your exam.
- When writing about a sound, we always write the phoneme (unit of sound) in two forward slashes like this: /a/.
- When describing longer sounds, we use ‘:’ after the symbol.
- To transcribe sounds, we use the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet). These are freely available online. But you will not be given this in your Paper 2 exam, so you will have to memorise phonological features from the studies.
1Language Levels
1.1Assessment Objectives
1.2Lexis
1.2.1Introduction
1.2.2Common, Proper, Abstract & Concrete Nouns
1.2.3Collective Nouns
1.2.4Adjectives
1.2.5Main, Auxiliary & Copular Verbs
1.2.6Dynamic & Stative Verbs
1.2.7Transitive, Intransitive, Active & Passive Verbs
1.2.8Mood of Verbs
1.2.9Adverbs
1.2.10Personal, Possessive & Reflexive Pronouns
1.2.11Relative & Demonstrative Pronouns
1.2.12Determiners
1.2.13Conjunctions
1.2.14Synonyms, Antonyms & Phonological Features
1.2.15End of Topic Test - Lexis
1.3Grammar
1.4Semantics & Pragmatics
1.5Discourse Structure, Graphology & Orthography
2Language, The Individual & Society
2.1Children’s Language Development
2.2Children's Language Development - Theories
2.3Literacy Development: Reading
3Language Diversity & Change
3.1The Importance of Gendered Language
3.2Social Groups
3.3Occupational Groups
3.4Accents & Dialects
3.5Language Change
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1Language Levels
1.1Assessment Objectives
1.2Lexis
1.2.1Introduction
1.2.2Common, Proper, Abstract & Concrete Nouns
1.2.3Collective Nouns
1.2.4Adjectives
1.2.5Main, Auxiliary & Copular Verbs
1.2.6Dynamic & Stative Verbs
1.2.7Transitive, Intransitive, Active & Passive Verbs
1.2.8Mood of Verbs
1.2.9Adverbs
1.2.10Personal, Possessive & Reflexive Pronouns
1.2.11Relative & Demonstrative Pronouns
1.2.12Determiners
1.2.13Conjunctions
1.2.14Synonyms, Antonyms & Phonological Features
1.2.15End of Topic Test - Lexis
1.3Grammar
1.4Semantics & Pragmatics
1.5Discourse Structure, Graphology & Orthography
2Language, The Individual & Society
2.1Children’s Language Development
2.2Children's Language Development - Theories
2.3Literacy Development: Reading
3Language Diversity & Change
3.1The Importance of Gendered Language
3.2Social Groups
3.3Occupational Groups
3.4Accents & Dialects
3.5Language Change
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