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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"received pronunciation"”.
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British Dialect for the American Stage
… categories of British dialect for the stage: Received Pronunciation, Cockney, and Estuary. This involves the exploration of the oral posture, resonance point, sound changes, rhythm and melody, and grammatical and lexical changes of each. This also includes the application of the dialect to a …
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Adelaide English: Regional Variation in Australian English Phonology
… who speak cultivated English, resembling the Received Pronunciation (RP) of British English. Accordingly, the "prestigious" Adelaide variety is closely connected to the aristocratic settlement history of South Australia. Scholarly sources were collected and a study on regional variation was …
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Using A Diglot Reader to Teach Kanji: The Effects of Audio and Romaji on the Acquisition of Kanji Vocabulary
… the effects of two methods of presenting pronunciation of kanji-words, audio recording and romaji, on the acquisition of the meaning and pronunciation of kanji-words as well as the overall effect of learning of pronunciation on the learning and retention of meaning. Eighty-one university …
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Globalisation versus internal development: the reverse short front vowel shift in South African English
… vowels KIT, DRESS and TRAP when compared to Received Pronunciation (Lass & Wright 1986). This raising wasparticularly evident in the speech of middle class white speakers of South African English, as well as coloured speakers in the Cape. Recent scholarship has suggested that this raising is …
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A Sociolinguistic Study of T-glottalling in Young RP: Accent, Class and Education
Received Pronunciation (RP) has been widely described linguistically (Wells 1982, 1991, 1997), although little sociolinguistic research has been carried out on it (Fabricius 2000). Over the last few years, a new trend has been observed in young RP speakers to incorporate non-standard features in …