Accent

Question 1

Mandarin has 4 different tones - what are they

Answer 1

1. Rising tone
2. Falling tone
3. Contour tone
4. Flat tone

Question 2

What is the problem with the app ‘Cantone’?

Answer 2

Doesn’t always provide an accurate idea of the waves in certain sounds; hard to replicate

Question 3

In accent modification (?), why is visual biofeedback important?

Answer 3

Allows us to figure out the involuntary movement of our mouth

Question 4

In Japanese, speakers pronounce an [f] by pushing air through their _____ in a _____ manner

Answer 4

lips; bilabial

Question 5

British and American English are two examples of ______ _________ dialects

Answer 5

Mutually intelligible

Question 6

What is the difference between segmental and suprasegmental sounds

Answer 6

Segmental looks at individual sounds –> phones and suprasegmentals looks at prosodic features (tones)

Question 7

What is the difference between the British/American ‘banana’ and the Japanese/Englisg ‘f’

Answer 7

1. describes a regional accent and 2. describes a second language’s sounds

Question 8

What do we discover about the phrase “the weather is nice RIGHT NOW so i want to get OUT of the HOUSE”

Answer 8

We see canadian raising

Question 9

Canadian raising

Answer 9

When an onset of a certain diphthong raises to a mid vowel if preceding a voiceless obstruent (e.g. /p/, /s/, /t/, etc.)

Question 10

T/F : accents are a big part of language disorders

Answer 10

False, because everyone has an accent

Question 11

T/F : a listener, unlike the speaker, doesn’t play a huge active role in effective communication

Answer 11

False, the listener must actively be in tune with the conversation

Question 12

What did the accent listener bias in Russell/Babel 2015’s study show (hint : Chinese and White study)

Answer 12

Chinese Canadian talkers were less intelligible when White Canadian listeners had their PICTURE and AUDIO than just the audio

Question 13

T/F : To ensure successful communication with an accented speaker, one should absolutely ask the other to repeat themselves if they weren’t able to understand

Answer 13

True

Question 14

T/F: it is perfectly acceptable to become frustrated with someone’s accented speech

Answer 14

False

Question 15

ways that a person can engage in active listener training when involving accented speech (2)

Answer 15

1. Longitudinal service learning - constant learning of different languages
2. Increasing the comm with NON-native speakers