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English Language 1st year - Useful links and materials

Mikaela CORDISCO English Language 1st year - Useful links and materials

PART 1 -

The status of English in the world

THE STORY OF ENGLISH video 1: An English-speaking world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gccBtagsU4Y

PART 1 -

The status of English in the world

A good summary of the lessons on the status of present-day English around the world:

David Crystal:

- PART 2 -

Received Pronunciation

RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/case-studies/received-pronunciation/

RP features and Mp3 samples http://www.yorku.ca/earmstro/speech/dialects/rp/index.html

RP phonemes tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htmkbIboG9Q

The Routes of English: TALKING POSH http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/routesofenglish/storysofar/posh.shtml

Newspaper article: Queen’s English no longer so posh http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/~jmh/research/accentsenglish/queenpapers/cosmosmagazineoz.htm

On RP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg1AQ5JmU9 (make a transcription of the video)

Extract from tv series Friends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZpOY-bymZA

The Queen's English 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPZkrRpJ4Zc (NEW)

"Has the Queen become frightfully common?" (newspaper article)

"How come William and Harry don't have their father's posh accent?" https://www.quora.com/How-come-William-and-Harry-dont-have-their-fathers-posh-accent (article)

Sign of the times: WIlliam and Kate's accents http://dialectblog.com/2011/05/01/william-and-kates-accent/

"Prince cut-glass accent is a little less polished than Kate Middelton's" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9653166/Prince-Williams-cut-glass-accent-is-a-little-less-polished-than-Kate-Middletons.html

(--- if interested, analysie Kate and William's interview to identify the differences in their pronunciation (Kate = RP and WIlliamo closer to Estuary English): http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11770175 ---)

My Fair Lady excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJr9SSJKkII&frags=pl%2Cwn

- PART 3 -

COCKNEY

What is Cockney: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cockney

Cockney features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEtJgS4r8Ic

Sample sentences: https://pronunciationstudio.com/cockney-englands-most-famous-accent/

How to do a Cockney accent. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnjGNJ5JL8w&noredirect=1

Learn the Cockney accent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnjGNJ5JL8w&noredirect=1

A Londoner explains how to speak Cockney (with a mention to RP) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s11qjmvTdJ8

Can you understand Cockney accent? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96j7vD6dt7M

Adele: Cockney vs RP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaibc6j7VVA

THE STORY OF ENGLISH VIDEO N. 7 "The Muvver Tongue" - watch the first 30 minutes of the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGID-SgatN8

To sum up:

Variations in English https://www2.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/lss-research/ccisc/discourse-and-culture/west-midlands-english-speech-and-society/variations-in-english

- PART 4 -

Corpus, concordance, collocations

WHAT CORPUS LINGUISTICS IS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32RjJ-lA-8Q

Collocations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqRloBkyqQs&frags=pl%2Cwn

Idioms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfFMlDhkDpk&frags=pl%2Cwn

Word formation

Word formation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFXko8MDwsg

Word-formation processes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHGtn563DQI&frags=pl%2Cwn

Neologisms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_wK3Gg9M70

New verb: to meganmarkle https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jan/24/to-meghan-markle-verb-how-to-use-it

PART 5 - PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY

Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elFOQnWr5Co

Phonemes, allophones, minimal pairs... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCeXfLfVQ2I

International Phonetic Alphabet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_SHfoUDj8A

Consonants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfoRdKuPF9I

Vowels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7jQ8FELbIo

Intonation/Prosody:

Intonation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6aE4nceJt8&frags=pl%2Cwn

Intonation patterns (rhythm) https://englishpronunciationroadmap.com/intonation-patterns-in-english/

to deepen your knowledge:

Peter Roach talks on Prosody:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvP6I6jHG6w&app=desktop

Prosody, Linguistic Structure and Interaction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0RZ2UUsoos&app=desktop

Stress and intonation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hPGfPVDKks&app=desktop

Rhythm and stress-timing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivdy9fe-luM&app=desktop

  • English Pronunciation poems:
  1. –"I take it you already know" poem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQcW6K03zOg ; text and transcription: http://www.jochenenglish.de/misc/phonetic_symbols_itakeit.pdf
  2. –"The chaos". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQcW6K03zOg; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1edPxKqiptw (american); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-JDu3o7Cyw (con trascrizione)

PART 6 - SYNTAX

Introductin to English Syntax https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v2BYta1PFM

What is syntax https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw62E9v9DnU

What is a sentence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeiuG81mbII

PART 7 - SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS

Introduction to Semantics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3t2VPcHwCw

What is Pragmatics? (David Crystal) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xc0KUD1umw


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