American Accent Training 笔记 01

American Accent Training  笔记 01

1 What is accent?

Accent is a combination of three main components :intonation ,liaisons and pronunciation .

2 Can I learn a new accent?

It is up to you to use them or not .

How well you do depends mainly on how open and willing you are to sounding different from the way you have sounded all your life.

3 Which accent is correct? Why is my accent so bad?

Your accent is not bad; it is nonstandard to the American ear.

4 less than it appears … more than it appears

Some words appear too have three or more syllables, but all of them are not actually spoken.

The inserted syllables are filled with letters that are not in the written word.

5 language is fluent and fluid .

6 Tense vowel lax vowels semivowels

7 voiced consonants and unvoiced consonants

Locations: the lips ,the tip of the tongue ,and the throat

Chapter 1 American Intonation

Jazz

1 Do not speak word by word

2 Connect words to form sound groups

Instead of thinking of each word as a unit ,think od sound units

Never really ending and never really starting ,just flowing along

3 use staircase intonation

Wavy river

4 three ways to make intonation

Get louder or raise the volume

Stretch the word out or lengthen the word

Change the pitch