Accents: A Manual for ActorsThis practical reference manual, with its precise, authentic instructions on how to speak in more than 100 dialects, has established itself as the most useful and comprehensive guide to accents available, now increased by a third in this revised printing. As before, the accents range from regional U.S. and British dialects to European accents that include, among others, the Germanic, Slavic and Romance Languages. Completing his around-the-world journey, the author then covers the Middle East, Africa and Asia. |
Contents
Introduction | 2 |
Notes on General American English Compared to Standard British | 19 |
Introduction | 28 |
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accent in English actor African accents alphabet American articulation Basque British RP century Chapter consonant clusters County Cork Cyrillic alphabet Danish dialect dropped example exist falling tone films final consonants French accent German glottal stop heard Important Sounds Consonants Indo-European languages Irish Italian language last syllable learned lengthened vowel linguistic lips middle mouth nasal nasal vowels native non-rhotic Note nounced palate Phonetic pronunciation phrase Possible Pitch Pattern Practice words pure vowels Quick Reference retroflex retroflex consonants rhotic rhymes Russian schwa Scottish Scottish Standard English semi-vowel shifts slightly sometimes Spanish speak speakers speech spelled spoken Standard stress patterns stressed syllables syllable tayk TH and th thing tonal language tongue trilled tRoo unstressed upper-class usual substitution uvular Vocal Apparatus voiced consonants Vowels and Diphthongs Yiddish