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The Southern accent

an introduction to the art and artists of Tamil Nadu

Collective biographical pieces with photo reproduction of some important paintings of the artists.

1980 Asian Art Exhibition-Part ll, Fukuoka, Japan. 1984 : Robin Hood
lnternational Annual (27th in the series) Art Exhibition, Sydney, Australia. 1988 :
Amsterdam, Netherlands. 1984 Neo-Tantra, Bayreuth, Hanover, Dusseldorf and
Stuttgart, ...

Accent on learning

an analytical history of the Fund for Adult Education's Experimental Discussion Project, 1951-1959

The region selected was Southeast Asia, an area not well known to most
Americans, but coming increasingly to public attention in recent years. In the fall
of 1956 Nathaniel Peffer, Professor of International Relations at Columbia
University, ...

Postscript with a Chinese accent

memoirs and diaries, 1972-1973

I started by asking what he thought of Australian Prime Minister Whitlam's idea of
an expanding Asian- Pacific consultative community. As translated, he answered:
"Actually, as an objective ultimately, such a group is a good idea. But there are ...

Feminist Theology with a Canadian Accent

Asian Canadian Feminist Theology In many ways, Asian Canadian feminist
theology is primarily a counter-movement to the Western dominance of a
discourse on the Divine.76 It is trying to develop a distinctive theology that will be
inherently ...

The American speaker: containing numerous rules, observations, and exercises on pronunciation, pauses, inflections, accent, and emphasis

also, copious extracts in prose and poetry ...

... we tread, is round ; — he proposes, with what seems a sacrilegious hand, to lift
the veil which had hung, from the creation of the world, over the floods of the
ocean ; — he promises, by a western course, to reach the eastern shores of Asia
 ...

An essay on the different nature of accent and quantity

with their use and application in the English, Latin, and Greek languages: containing remarks on the metre of the English; on the origin and aeolism of the Roman; on the general history of the Greek; with an account of its ancient tones, and a defense of their present accentual marks. With some additions from the papers of Dr. Taylor and Mr. Markland. To which is subjoined, the Greek elegiac poem of M. Musurus, addressed to Leo X, with a Latin version and notes

However, it is no improbable conjecture to suppose, that a corrupt manner of
pronouncing some words in the Greek language was occasioned by Alexander's
expedition into Asia. His army might have learned to accent some words
according ...

Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics: Accent on variety

In Jazykovaja politika v afro-aziatskikh stranakh (The language policy in the
countries of Asia and Africa), l37-l49. Moscow. l978 Jazykovye problemy
Indonezii 70-h godov (Masalah-masalah bahasa di Indonesia dalam tahun 70-an
 ...

Campbell's Accent on Numbers Quiz Book

40) Which 5 European capitals of independent countries have names beginning
with the letter A? Answer: Andorra la Vella (Andorra); Athens (Greece); Almaty (
Kazakstan; Kazakstan is partly in Europe and mostly in Asia); Amsterdam (the ...

Cooking with a Harvard accent

a collection of international recipes from the Harvard community

Asia. Enthusiasts. Makes about 36 When John K. Fairbank and Wilma Cannon
met as undergraduates, they didn't know they would make Harvard history.
Together they traveled to China, were married in Peking, and stayed four more
years.

Foreign Accent Perception

Polish English in the British Ears

The phenomenon of foreign accents and their perception have received considerable attention from pronunciation specialists and academic researchers working within different fields of study, such as phonetics, phonology, foreign language teaching, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, social psychology, anthropology, and even law. The reason for this widespread interdisciplinary interest is caused by the fact that, in addition to revealing the speaker’s origin, accent carries significant social connotations and evokes various ethnic, racial, religious and socio-economic stereotypes. This book represents the largest, up-to-date qualitative and quantitative investigation into the accentedness, acceptability, intelligibility and comprehensibility of Polish English of three groups of native speakers, the English, the Irish and the Scottish, comparing the ways in which it is perceived by members of three nations and establishing pronunciation priorities. The book will be of interest not only to phoneticians, pronunciation specialists and sociolinguists, but also to EFL teachers and students.

In the USA, for example, one can differentiate between foreign accents which are
undesirable (Asian, Indian, Middle Eastern and Spanish) and those that carry no
negative connotations (German, Swedish, French) and may even be regarded ...