Pronouncing Consonants 2: Aspiration, Taps and other special features
Pronouncing Vowels 2: back vowels
Vowels are less easily distinguished than consonants because there are no distinct boundaries between them as there are for consonants, and so they are usually described according to how they sound in relation to one another. Unfortunately, any phoneme can still vary...
Pronouncing Connected speech 2: Rhythm
Something a little different this time! Pick out four to six lines of your favorite rap or hip-hop song. Practice ‚rapping‘ them just like the interpreter does. Think about which words and syllables take the most prominence in pronunciation....
Pronouncing Consonants Special: That pesky ‚th‘
Which consonants cause you the most trouble in speaking English? What sounds do you think particularly challenge other speakers of English as a foreign language? While many speakers have issues with the liquids ‚r‘ and ‚l‘, most Europeans...
Finding and Identifying Rhetorical Devices
Within literary studies, working with rhetorical devices is an essential part of your degree. Whether you want to analyse a poem, a prose text or a piece of a play- rhetorical devices play an important role in constructing the meaning of the text. In the following, we...
Pronouncing Connected Speech 1: Liaison
Is that what the Monkees sang? What kinds of things cause us to misunderstand song lyrics or other spoken texts? Surprisingly, most of the time, it is not a mispronounced or misheard phoneme that causes the most trouble. It is much more likely to be a word or syllable...Gefördert vom
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