US Regional Accents - Where do you fit in? US Regional Accents - Where do you fit in? If you live in the United States, you're likely aware that there are a handful of regional accents across that great country of yours, many of which are immediately recognizable before even three words are strung together. We've found a map that details the boundaries of each of the major regional American dialects. Where do you fit in? There are eight different geographical areas marked on that map each with its own unique linguistic characteristics. Accent Quiz You may recall that a while ago we took part in a fun quiz that helped you to identify which American regional accent you had. By virtue of where we are located in Canada's Great Lakes region, the accent that best matched our way of speaking was the "Inland North". The results for Inland North said: You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?
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You can practice your accent, pronunciation and intonation. Taught by native British English speaker, Alison Pitman. It gives you enough time to record, playback and to repeat the lesson. Speak with an Irish accent? Come here, boyo, let's not misunderstand each other: you're not going to be able to sound like a Dubliner by the end of this article.
Many have tried, many have failed: Brad Pitt in The Devil's Own, Val Kilmer in The Ghost and the Darkness, Richard Gere in The Jackal, Tom Cruise in Far and Away. God almighty, they were all bollocks! But it's not just the lads - the colleens are useless too: Julia Roberts in Michael Collins. But it's obviously worth trying - these notables were all too aware of the increased sexual allure of those of the Hibernian (that is, Irish) persuasion. And that accent is a powerful tool. New Zealand Pronunciation. Here are some words spoken by a New Zealand woman, Glennis Ryder.
Glennis grew up in Foxton (near Palmerston North, in the lower half of the North Island). She is of European descent. At the time of the recording she was 37 years old and had never been overseas. Glennis gave permission for her voice to be used on this website and for these facts about her to be made public. Click on the speaker to hear her pronunciation of the words in that row. If you have either "theWebPlayer for Mac" or "SciconWeb for PC", it will draw on your screen an excellent pitch plot and spectrogram of these sounds. These words have been identified as potentially diagnostic of New Zealand English in Holmes and Bell (1988): Stress and Accent Marks. The umlaut (ä, ë, ï, ö, ü) is the only accent used in German writing.
It alters the pronunciation of vowels in words. Accent is generally on the first syllable, so that final syllables are usually very weak. One big exception to the accent rule is a group of very common prefixes: be [ba] ge [ga] er emp ent ver zer, which are unaccented. Paul Meier Dialect Services - IPA charts - dialects - dialect books - phonetics - IPA - phonetics - vowels. (If unavailable here, please go to Professor Armstrong’s site, where you will find them duplicated.)
The following interactive charts of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) were designed by Eric Armstrong of York University, Toronto, Canada; and voiced by Paul Meier, of the University of Kansas, in Lawrence, Kansas, USA. They are provided as an aid to students of dialects and phonetics. If you are studying dialects with Paul Meier Dialect Services books or booklets, and want to hear one of the “signature sounds” in isolation, or in comparison with other sounds, you may do so using the charts here. Vowels, consonants, ingressives, suprasegmentals, intonation, diacritics, ejectives, implosives, diphthongs, and clicks are demonstrated. Clicking one of the charts will link you to a Flash animation.
Free demo to create avatars using Text-to-Speech (TTS) by SitePal. What American accent do you have? (Best version so far) Quiz at Quiztron. EVP WAV EXAMPLES.