Class 20-X-11

Dear all, I´ll be meeting you at our dear JVG for our class.

Files 24 & 43

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Wells focuses on Focus

On Oct 4th, Prof. Wells gave this definition I share with you


In pragmatics, focus is the foregrounding of part of the message — typically what is new or contrastive or otherwise important — and the backgrounding of everything else. It is realized in intonation as the presence of accented syllables, i.e. syllables that are not only rhythmically but also intonationally prominent (pitch-prominent). Identifying the beginning of each intonational ‘focus phrase’ or ‘focus domain’ is sometimes tricky, but identifying the end is easy: it ends at the end of the word in which the nuclear accent appears (= the last accented syllable in the intonation phrase).


You may find it interesting to have a look at the complete post:

http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/2011/10/focus-finality.html

Transcription 9-11

Find the text for the transcription for next class. 

Word stress 5

Find text 48.
More to come.

Word stress 4

Find text 41

No classes tomorrow, Sept 1st

Dear all, due to a sudden inconvinience, I won´t be able to be with you  tomorrow.
All the best. See you all next week.

Word stress 3

Find text 36

Word stress 2

Find text 31

Word stress 1

Find the material to work with text 24

Dictation Practice at Lab´s L Library

Dear all, the name of the material I mentioned last class is "English Pronunciation Practice (new)", which has the audio on a cd. Good practice!

Happy Winter Hols!

Enjoy yourselves!

When we meet again

When we meet again,

• we´ll be discussing points 3.4 and 3.5 form Wells´ book (pages 100 through to 109);
• make sure you have completed all the activities in the gray boxes in the above pages, from the phonological as well as the language standpoints.

Samantha

Find a new text for transcription: the first part of this text has to be submitted on July, 14.

Sad news

22-06-2011: Sólo el profesorado de  Inglés , mañana jueves, tendrá asueto en el turno de la mañana. El velatorio de la Prof. Muñiz cerrará a las 20 y abrirá mañana a las 8, el cortejo partirá a las 9.30 hacia el Cementerio de Flores.

Visit

Tomorrow Jacquie, the Language Assistant from U.S.A., will be in our course. So...Get your questions ready!

Conversation classes

Conversation Club (with a native speaker!!)

Jacqueline Cornetta (Jacqui)  is the new Language Assistant coming from Indiana, USA. As from next week you can practise your conversation skills with her twice a week. It is not necessary to enroll previously! You can meet her according to the following schedule:

On Tuesdays, from 12:10 to 13:30, in room 1102

On Thursdays, from 12:10 to 13:30, in room 802

Don't miss this opportunity!!

innit?

Going on with one of t he topics dealt with in our last lecture, Wells touches upon it today, among other issues. This shows that language is for ever alive...

Double-stressed adjectives

As if reading our minds Prof. Wells posted today interesting material on this type of compounds.

Students´ List

Find this data in the "Students´ List" section.

PW 1

In the Class Material  you´ll find the text for this transcription - an extract from "Never Let Me Go". The work should finish at "...reveal another picture."
Thanks again to the students who proposed this text, and, to Aldana who kindly emailed it to me.

Transcriptions

A note on this: do you remember that you´ll be bringing your choice of material from other subjects, suitable for transcription practice?

Finch & Ortiz Lira - Ch 9

In our next lecture, we´ll be discussing and comparing the authors´s mentioned above to Wells´s concepts on Accentuation (beg. of Ch 9). Also read how accent is reflected in different word units - same chapter.
This material, as well as others, were left on the 8th floor.

Wells

In the Class Material section you will find the study guides to Wells´s book, a work we kindly thank Professors Cinthia Smith, Graciela Moyano and Marina Cantarutti.

Stress Changes in Spanish

Find in the Class Material section some refrence to this.

S A V

Simply... on Water and more info in SAV.

Día Mundial de la Voz

I invite you to stop and reflect upon how responsibly you use the tool you carry in you: your voice