Siria GUZZO | USEFUL LINKS - ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1B

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=Mj9jJiPwsp0

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:

• Why English has developed as a world languagehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg8jS-AMyMo

David Crystal:

• Which English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XT04EO5RSU
• World Englishes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_q9b9YqGRY
• Global English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZI1EjxxXKw
• Will English always be the global language? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kvs8SxN8mc

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

• queen’s speech 1957 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBRP-o6Q85s
• queen’s speech 1984 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSA-iuHXrps
• queen’s speech 2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8wYmxvpN_s
• queen’s speech 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mzor6Hf1tY

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

Cockney

• http://www.cockney.co.uk/
• How to do a Cockney accent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnjGNJ5JL8w&noredirect=1
• Learn Cockney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WvIwkL8oLc
• Austin Power (about Cockney) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgPH0tYXJrA
• Rhyming slang http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/blog/what-is-cockney-rhyming-slang/
• Pygmalion script http://www.bartleby.com/138/index.html
• Family Guy episode: http://org/movie/51-Family_Guy_304_One_If_By_Clam_Two_If_By_Sea.html

Cockney

• http://www.cockney.co.uk/
• How to do a Cockney accent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnjGNJ5JL8w&noredirect=1
• Learn Cockney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WvIwkL8oLc
• Austin Power (about Cockney) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgPH0tYXJrA
• Rhyming slang http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/blog/what-is-cockney-rhyming-slang/
• Pygmalion script http://www.bartleby.com/138/index.html
• My Fair Lady: full movie https://server6.hdmovieplay.com/play.php?movie=0058385
• My Fair Lady: Eliza’s pronunciation exercises http://dialectblog.com/2011/05/01/william-and-kates-accent/
• Family Guy episode: http://org/movie/51-Family_Guy_304_One_If_By_Clam_Two_If_By_Sea.html

Estuary English

• http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/estuary/home.htm
• ESTUARY ENGLISH (D. Crystal) https://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/estuary/crystal-2.htm
• EE vs RP https://pronunciationstudio.com/received-pronunciation-vs-estuary/
• Why people change the way they speak (Tony Blair) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf0DDm9NYcI
• Estuary English Features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttWYFU6QK88&frags=pl%2Cwn

About Kate and William:

• Kate and William engagement full interview http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11770175
• About Wi lliam and Kate accent http://dialectblog.com/2011/05/01/william-and-kates-accent/
• Newspaper article: 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

To sum up:

RP – COCKNEY - EE

• http://dialectblog.com/british-accents/;
• https://www.dailystep.com/en/blog/london-accents-estuary-cockney-and-rp

• Newspaper article: Has the Queen become frightfully common? (2016) http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160202-has-the-queen-become-frightfully-common
• Newspaper article: How Queen's cut-glass accent slipping Videos reveal monarch shifted speech recent year http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3439129/How-Queen-s-cut-glass-accent-slipping-Videos-reveal-monarch-shifted-speech-recent-years-sound-like-one-us.html

• 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
• IDEA Internationa Dialects of English archive http://www.dialectsarchive.com/
• David Crystal on Standard/non standard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGg-2MQVReQ

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 3 -

Phonetics and Phonology

- What is Phonetics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzh3Owutf5Y

- Phonetics and Phonology lessons 1 and 2

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elFOQnWr5Co&frags=pl%2Cwn
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIybcUshO30&frags=pl%2Cwn

- Poems about pronunciation and for pronunciation practice (with some explanation)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzMaMDu_VQU
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbZ3TWIBXcw
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-GDoVBlVeA
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THGLikzuu-o

Transcription Practice - YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBpEATl3KZE

Intonation

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

• Peter Roach on Prosody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvP6I6jHG6w&app=desktop
• Peter Roach on Prosody, Linguistic Structure and Interaction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0RZ2UUsoos&app=desktop
• Peter Roach on Stress and intonation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hPGfPVDKks&app=desktop
• Peter Roach on Rhythm and stress-timing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivdy9fe-luM&app=desktop

PART 4: Corpus, concordance, collocations

• British National Corpus (100 million words).
• http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/
• (to practice with BNC: http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/ )
• The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of British English, both spoken and written, from the late twentieth century

• COBUILD - Collins-Birmingham University International Language Database – (200 million words).
• The COBUILD team (Collins Birmingham University International Language Database) consists of a set of researchers working in the Sinclairian tradition and using the vast Bank of English corpus to produce reference works such as the COBUILD dictionary, English grammar, and grammar patterns books. For more information on the COBUILD, you can visit their website at https://collins.co.uk/pages/elt-cobuild-reference-the-collins-corpus
• The COBUILD corpus is used at the English Linguistics section for research into various aspects of English grammar, including various topics to do with the lexicogrammar of the nominal group. In the sections which you can browse using the top links, you can learn how to access the COBUILD corpus via K.U.Leuven login and how to make and process the extractions you need for your own corpus research.

Concordancers:

WordsmithTools

http://www.lexically.net/wordsmith/index.html

AntConc (free)

http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/

List of free concordancers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordancer

PART 5 - Morphology WORD FORMATION

New Words in English:

• žhttp://www.boredpanda.com/modern-word-combinations-urban-dictionary/
• žhttp://www.learn-english-today.com/new-words/new-words-in-english.html
• žhttp://mentalfloss.com/article/31363/35-modern-words-recently-added-dictionary

THE STORY OF ENGLISH video 7: The Muvver Tongue (RP/Cockney)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGID-SgatN8