Week 9: Transcribing my accent
Look at the text below and do the following:
· Transcribe it into your own accent.
· If appropriate, identify some areas of your own accent that might differ from a British or American accent. Use a footnote to comment on them, eg ‘ I substitute /d/ for / ð/ here’
· Upload your transcript to moodle.
In the feedback you will see a fairly detailed phonemic transcription of (a) a Brazilian speaker from Sao Paulo, (b), an English speaker from Oxfordshire, and (c) an American speaker from Detroit, Michigan. Compare your own transcriptions with theirs.
Text for transcription:
Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station.
- 12 février 2019, 14:09