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Accent Neutralization

This document discusses accent neutralization and effective communication with an accent. It defines accent as a combination of intonation, liaisons, and pronunciation. It states that accent neutralization helps speakers communicate in a more neutral fashion so that people from different regions can understand each other clearly. The document outlines the key elements of speech sounds in English, including consonants and vowels. It also discusses syllable stress, intonation patterns, and the components of intonation including pitch, sentence stress, and rhythm. The goal is for readers to understand how to speak English with a more neutral accent for effective communication.

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Accent Neutralization

This document discusses accent neutralization and effective communication with an accent. It defines accent as a combination of intonation, liaisons, and pronunciation. It states that accent neutralization helps speakers communicate in a more neutral fashion so that people from different regions can understand each other clearly. The document outlines the key elements of speech sounds in English, including consonants and vowels. It also discusses syllable stress, intonation patterns, and the components of intonation including pitch, sentence stress, and rhythm. The goal is for readers to understand how to speak English with a more neutral accent for effective communication.

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Accent neutralization

By Mariana Christina

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What are we going to learn??

By the end of this session you’ll be able to


 Define Accent
 State the elements of speech sound
 Demonstrate effectiveness of using a neutral accent
 Sentence and word Stress
 Intonation pattern
 Effective Communication with an accent

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English is a global Language and can be spoken in different way.

Hence..,

Accent neutralization

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What is neutralized Accent?

 Accent neutralization is not about adopting a new accent, and speaking like someone a person is not. Accent
neutralization helps get over stronger regional twangs and accents, and speak in a more neutral fashion so
that we from anywhere in the globe can understand them clearly.

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What is Accent?

Accent is a combination of 3 main components:


 Intonation – speech music
 Liaisons – word connections
 Pronunciation – spoken sounds of vowels, consonants, and combinations

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English Speech Sound …

All the sounds produced in English are typically classified into Consonants and vowels:
English alphabet (26):
Consonants -21, Vowels -5
Phonetically speaking the number of sounds required to speak with received pronunciation requires 44 sounds:
Consonants -24, Vowels -20

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Syllable Stress

 syllables are referred to as the ‘beats’ of spoken language. The number of times you hear a vowel (a, e, i , o, u) in a word is
equal to the number of syllables a word has. As a general rule only one syllable is stressed in one word.
How to pronounce a stressed syllable?
When a syllable is stressed, it is pronounced:
Longer in duration
Higher in pitch
Louder in volume
How do you say teacher?
Longer- teeeeea cher
Higher- tea cher
Louder- TEA cher All three combined-TEEEEEE cher Sensitivity: Internal & Restricted
Cont..,

Learning about syllables is part of learning


how to decode and spell words. For example:
Cat has one syllable (words of one syllable
are monosyllabic)
Water has two syllables (wa / ter)
Computer has three syllables (com / pu / ter)
Category has four syllables (cat / e / gor / y)

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Intonation

 Intonation is the term used to refer to the distinctive use of different patterns of pitch that carry meaningful
information. Pitch is the rate of vibration of the vocal folds. When we speak, normally the pitch of our voice
is constantly changing. We describe pitch in terms of high and low. Let’s consider the following example:
Question: What is the difference between the two sentences?
1. He is going tomorrow.
2. He is going tomorrow?
These sentence melodies are called intonation.

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Key components of Intonation : Intonation
is based on several key components: Pitch,
Sentence stress, Rhythm

• Pitch: Pitch is the degree of heigh of our voice in speech. Normal speaking pitch is at midlevel. Intonation is
formed by certain pitch changes, characteristic of a given language.
• Sentence stress: Sentence stress makes the utterance understandable to the listener by making the important words
in the sentence stressed, clear and higher in pitch, and by shortening and obscuring the unstressed words. Sentence
stress provides rhythm in connected speech.
• Types of English Intonation: the two basic types are falling intonation and rising intonation. Other main types
of intonation include : high fall, low fall, fall-rise, high rise, midlevel rise, low rise.

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