surely we all have an accent ?
The Boston accent has two notable features.
“We’re not doing an out-and-out New York accent.”
But a specific ban on accent discrimination may not be necessary.
“Maybe a German accent or a Swedish accent.”
A Paris-Match journalist called it a “gravelly post-match rugby accent”.
Miranda insists that his English accent is completely different from Van Dyke’s.
If they ever make a tournament there I’m definitely coming because of that accent.
RP is the only British accent that has no specific geographical correlate: it is not…
You may think that the Queen of Scotland would definitely have had a Scottish accent, right?
This won’t bother me at all, but it did get me thinking about the accent neuroses I do have.
I’m pretty sure the accent is wrong (I never looked for a Baton Rouge accent), but I don’t seem to have a choice.
In linguistic literature an acute accent is used for falling tones and a tilde for rising tones; the grave accent is used for…
Mosseri of his father, an Israeli-American psychotherapist who speaks Hebrew with an American accent and English with an Israeli accent.
“What he definitely didn’t want was someone with a regional accent because that would be like saying you’re thick if you’ve got a regional accent.”
The nature of this accent is hotly disputed: contemporary grammarians seem to suggest it was a musical, tonal accent and not a stress accent.
On this week’s Why Factor Jo Fidgen meets an Englishwoman who suffers from a rare condition known as Foreign Accent Syndrome which causes her to speak with a French-sounding accent.
The word accent is often used interchangeably with stress, though some prosodists use accent to mean the emphasis that is determined by the normal meaning of the words while stress is used to mean metrical emphasis.
The representation of a person or fictional character can be influenced through their dialogue; if they use slang or speak with a strong accent, audiences will respond to that person in a very different way than someone who speaks perfect English without the trace of an accent.
The popular music scene developed an accent of it's own - John Peel went to public school, but cultivated a soft scouse accent, instinctively recognizing this as an acceptable voice in popular music - adopting a non-standard UK accent - with 'Jafaican' as one of the burgeoning metropolitan accents - suggesting individual freedom
accent
verb communication
- to stress, single out as important
noun communication
- distinctive manner of oral expression
Example: he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent
verb communication
- put stress on; utter with an accent
Example: In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word
noun state
- special importance or significance
noun communication
- the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
noun communication
- the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
noun communication
- a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
Verb Forms
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The popular music scene developed an accent of it's own - John Peel went to public school but cultivated a soft scouse accent instinctively recognizing this as an acceptable voice in popular music - adopting a non-standard UK accent - with 'Jafaican' as one of the burgeoning metropolitan accents - suggesting individual freedom