1.7. British and american english: differences in pronunciation
Although the majority of language forms are common to both British English and American English are a great number of points where they are different. It is the area of pronunciation that American English and British English differences are most obvious while divergent patterns of grammatical usage, of vocabulary choice and spelling differences crop up only sporadically. Pronunciation colors every aspect of oral communication. Much of this is due to the differences in what is called articulatory set, i.e. a predisposition to pronounce sounds and words in a particular style. Many American speakers especially from Middle West have a nasal "twang". This is caused by the habit of leaving the velum /'vJlqm/ open so that the nasal cavity forms the resonance chamber. Southern Americans are stereotyped by other American their “drawl”. This drawling out of sounds is due perhaps to the overall lack of tension in articulation. British accents are often thought of as clipped possibly because of greater tension and lesser degree drawling in stressed vowels.
- American english: Матеріали до вивчення курсу
- Contents
- 1.1. English as it exists today
- 1.2. Dialects vs variety/variation
- 1.3. English in america
- The languages of the usa and canada
- 1.3.1. Canadian English
- 1.3.2. Regional varieties of Canadian English
- 1.3.3. Regional varieties of English in the usa
- 1.4. Social variations of american english
- 1.5. Ethnic varieties of american english
- 1.5.1. Native American English
- 1.5.2. Spanish-influenced English
- 1.5.3. Black English
- 1.6. Male-female differences
- 1.6.1. Approaches to the Explanation of Cross-Sex Difference
- 1.6.2. Differences encoded in language
- 1.6.3. How to Avoid Sexist Language
- 1.7. British and american english: differences in pronunciation
- 1.7.1. Differences in Phonetic Inventory
- 1.7.2. Differences in Quality of the Phonemes
- 1.7.3. Phonotactic Differences
- Intervocalic /t/
- 1.7.4. Divergent Patterns of Phoneme Use in Sets of Words
- 1.7.5. Stress and Intonation
- 1.8. British english and american english: differences in morphology
- 1.8.1. Differences in the Verb
- 1.8.2. Differences in the Noun and Pronoun
- 1.8.3. Differences in the Preposition and the Adverbs
- Time Expressions:
- 1.9. British english and american english: differences in lexis
- British english and american english:
- BrE fulfil, instil may be interpreted as simplification. In AmE we find double “ll” in fulfill, instill, but both forms are used in AmE install(l), install(l)ment.
- BrE BrE
- Individual Words which Differ in Spelling
- Exercise 2
- Exercise 3
- Exercise 4
- Exercise 5
- Exercise 6
- Exercise 7
- Exercise 18
- Exercise 19
- 1. Eastern New England
- 2. Middle Atlantic
- 3. Southern
- 4. North Central
- 5. Southern Mountain
- Exercise 20
- Exercise 21
- List of Abbreviations
- Glossary