Stage DialectsDramatic Publishing, 1994 - 156 pages A "definitive work," this book presents eleven of the most popular dialects used in plays and drama, breaking them down into key sounds, including "vowel substitutions, dipthongal changes, consonant subsititions, special pronunciations, and pitch patterns." The phonetic alphabet is also included, along with readings for drill and practice. |
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accent action actor alteration American auld auld lang syne back vowel beautiful becomes bird Brooklynese characteristic Cockney Consonant Substitutions Daniel Jones delivery dialectician Diphthongal Changes distinctive dropped elongation employed enunciation EXERCISES Key-Sound Word father Fluency Practice French dialect German dialect girl glottal stop hear heard idiom instances Irish dialect Italian dialect Japanese dialect Jerry Blunt key sounds Key-Sound Word Drill language Larry Moss London medial nasal native person play plosive consonants primary-source pronounced pronunciation Reading and Fluency Reading for Fluency result schwa schwa vowel Scotch Scots Sentence Context Sight Reading slurred sonant Sounds in Sentence Southern speak speaker stage dialect Standard English street strength stress strong syllable talk tape thing tion tongue trilled usual utterance uvular vocal Voice voiceless vowel sound Vowel Substitutions wh hw