Articles Tagged: Languages, Accents and Dialects
Sociolinguistics
Sociolinguistics is the term used to describe the connection between social behavior and language. Sociolinguistics can be very culture specific. In many cases sociolinguistics is very dependant on the gender, nationality, and dialect of those speaking.
The Linguist List
Definitive resource of organizations, educational programs and conferences in linguistics.
International Phonetic Alphabet
In 1888, the Association Phonetique Internationale, or the International Phonetic Association, published the International Phonetic Alphabet, or IPA. It is a special phonetic system that is designed to regulate the sounds of spoken languages.
Speech and Language Disorders
A communication disorder is an inability to use or understand language and speech. Communication disorders include phonological disorder, expressive language disorder, mixed receptive-expressive language disorder, and stuttering.
Stuttering
Stuttering is a speech condition that disrupts the fluency of speech. People who stutter may repeat the same sound or have prolonged pronunciation of a particular sound.
100 Most Often Mispronounced Words in English
To continue on our verbal trail we've got a link to a site that lists one hundred of the most often mispronounced words in the English language. Want to take a guess as to which words are mentioned?
Map of US Regional Accents
If you live in the United States, you're likely aware that there are a handful of regional accents across that great country of yours, many of which are immediately recognizable before even three words are strung together.
Localization and how it's used in business
Localization is conveying a message to people in a specific geographical location implementing language and concepts that they can understand...
What's Dubbing
Business is starting to boom in India, and so is the market for dubbing films and other media from North America. As it turns out, it is also becoming a lucrative way for people to moonlight while still maintaining their day jobs, often making exponentially more money as a voice talent dubbing than they do at their primary place of work while also getting creative satisfaction from their dubbing work...
Mimicry VS Imitation
One might thinking that being able to repeat something that you have heard could be called either mimicking or imitation. While mimicking and imitation both have to do with the repetition (or replication) of something that is heard or seen, there is a significant difference between the two actions...
Worldly Voices : Chinese Voices
China, while an economic power, is also a linguistic power with millions of people around the world learning how to speak Mandarin and Cantonese in order to keep up with the fast paced growth being experienced overseas and in International trade. Mandarin is quickly becoming the language of business and any businessperson who learns how to speak it is at an advantage to be certain...
Worldly Voices : French Voices
French is not only the language of love, it's also a very useful and universal language that has found its way into many lands, whether through conquest or substantial settling by French immigrants to the New World as is the case with speakers in North America representing French Canadians, Acadians, and Cajuns...
Worldly Voices : German Voices
Germany, known for The Brothers Grimm, storybook castles, chocolate, Bach, Beethoven and the Boys, and the Rhine is one of our focal points this week as we learn more about the languages spoken in the global marketplace and the native speakers who give companies a voice through various applications using audio...
Worldly Voices : Russian Voices
When you think of Russia, images are evoked of caviar, furs, books by Tolstoy, Faberge Eggs, tennis player Anna Kournikova, the Romanov Dynasty, and Doctor Zhivago. While chatting with Russian voice talent Natasha Votyakova, Natasha pointed out not only is Russian culture and history a part of mainstream knowledge, the Russian language is also very widely spread across the world...
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