AJ22066 PRONUNCIATION VARIETIES, Autumn 2015 Sessions: Room G32, 1230-1400, Thursdays Oct. 8 and 22, Nov. 5 and 19, Dec. 3, 10 (joining AmE Varieties) and 17. Facilitator: K. Tomková, 2060@mail.muni.cz, office hours Tue 11-12 and 2:30-3:30, Wed 2-4, Thu 2:30-3:30. Compulsory listening: J.C.Wells – Accents of English in IS Study Materials Collins and Mees – Practical Phonetics and Phonology in IS Study Materials, with tapecscipts Youtube: - ‘The English Language in 24 Accents’ ‘A Tour of the British Isles in Accents’ ‘One Woman, 17 British Accents’ ‘Educating Rita Full Movie, ReallyJ’, ‘Christopher Cazenove in Three Men and a Little Woman’ (=Lady) Online sources: Sounds Familiar langlit; Accents Archive browse Literature: Phonetic and sociolinguistic terminology Accents of English by J.C.Wells, chapters presented in class International English by Trudgill / Hannah, chapters presented in class Accent and dialects for stage and screen by Paul Meier Requirements: - Attendance, 5pts a session - Final test max. 50pts - Contributions, up to 20pts Syllabus Oct. 8 The secrets of a posh accent: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/video/2014/sep/22/secrets-posh-accent-video-riot-club-vowel s Introduction. Literature. Terminology. Web sources. Wells’ triangle and Trudgill’s chart. Sources of recordings and tapescripts. 2 social varieties in Educating Rita. Anglican vicar stereotype in The Three Men and a Little Lady. Creating one’s own accent. Collections of errors. (Having native speakers of different accents in class.) Oct. 22 Phonetic terminology from Meier The sociolinguistics of accents from Wells RP, R.I.P. by David Abercrombie and Sociophonology by John Honey Upton’s model of RP by Miroslav Ježek Sum-up recordings: - A tour of the British Isles in Accents https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8mzWkuOxz8 - One woman, 17 British accents https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyyT2jmVPAk Cockney, Estuary English and SE England The rhotic SW: Bristol, Hampshire Welsh Midlans Yorkshire Scouse Geordie Nov. 5 Revision with reference to Guy Fawkes´ night EE accents overseas: - Australia and New Zealand recommended by Hana Kovačičová: www.radionz.co.nz/collections/kiwi-accent Flight of the Conchords – Racism “Brit“ (aka Bret) – The New Zealand Accent - South Africa - India - Africa - European second language varieties Nov. 19 - Scottish Recommended by Míša Hulínová: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBaB-7Jf5SI Recommended by Denisa Krásná: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP8reQgxoog a Bristolian in Edinburgh http://vimeo.com/103631822 on autism Recommended by Radka Petrlíková: iPhone has problem with Scottish accent, voice-operated elevator HW: watch Trainspotting. -Irish -Northern Irish HW: watch In the Name of the Father. Mock test. Dec. 3 Revision of Mock Test, additional hints and remarks. Credit test in theory, accent classification and recognition. Dec. 10 Joining AmE Varieties to meet a visitor (G32, 12:30) Dec. 17 Revision of Credit Test, assessments. Relevant tapescripts in Collins and Mees, Practical Phonetics and Phonology: 1 – Traditional RP 2 – Modern RP 41 – Cockney (Greater London) 42 – West Country (Bristol) 43 – Midlans (Birmingham) 44 – North (Lancashire) 45 – Geordie (Newcastle) 45 – Scottish (Edinburgh) 47 – Irish Republic (Greater Dublin) 48 – Northern Ireland (Belfast) 49 – South Wales 50 – Scouse (Liverpool) 51 – Southern USA (Texas) 52 – Kentucky 53 – Canadian 54 – Australian 55 – New Zealand 56 – South African 57 – Indian English 58 – Singapore 59 – Caribbean (West Indian)