The profession of voice and dialect is built upon the premise of maximum understanding for the audiences attending theatre. This maximum understanding, or intelligibility, has historically driven the practice and continues to shape the profession today. Intelligibility has been …
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Teachers' attitudes toward linguistic variation can influence what students learn about language. Most research on attitudes toward dialects has focused on people's attitudes based on phonological variation and ethnographic reports. The problem to be addressed was that teachers'…
The present work is a descriptive grammatical and lexical study of the Angālī dialect, which is spoken in an area to the southwest of the province of Fārs (Persia proper), in Iran. This dialect represents linguistic peculiarities which connect it with a larger family of Iranian …
No subject in the National Curriculum has been the source of more controversy than English. It has been at the heart of fierce debates in the political arena, amongst the policy makers responsible for the National Curriculum, in the academic world and in the media. Underlying th…
This study investigates adolescents' use of standard English in situations requiring careful speech. An account is given of the historical, political, linguistic and educational development of the concept of standard English, with particular emphasis on spoken standard English. …
This dissertation is the first account of a previously undocumented dialect of Neo-Mandaic, a Semitic language belonging to the Eastern subgroup of Aramaic. It is the most detailed description of any dialect of Neo-Mandaic. The data contained within this dissertation was collect…
The term Academic English (henceforth AE) refers here to any form of English that includes features that are expected in academic settings, especially in academic writing, features that for the most part no one uses in his or her native English. Some parents may use many AE feat…
The speech signal is comprised of many levels of information in addition to the text content itself, such as speaker information (e.g., dialect/accent, gender, emotion, age, identity) and environment information (e.g., channel, background noise, room conditions). This thesis foc…
This dissertation provides a synchronic description of the German dialects as spoken in German speech islands in the former Soviet Union, particularly in Russia and Kazakhstan. The German speech islands were founded in the second half of the 18th century by settlers from Germany…
Recent research suggests the emergence of simultaneous Puerto Rican Spanish-English bilinguals in younger generations of speakers (Fabiano-Smith et al., 2014). With the emergence of larger numbers of L1 English speakers on the island, it is reasonable to expect subsequent dialec…