Sentence examples for speech varieties from inspiring English sources
Will the country's demographic shifts demand a greater acceptance of multilingualism, and will there be a freer commingling of different speech varieties through what sociolinguists call "code-switching" and "code-mixing"?
A precise count is difficult, not only because of the problem of distinguishing dialects from languages but because many speech varieties became extinct before they could be systematically recorded, and they are known if at all from fragmentary and badly transcribed missionary word lists.
The number of transcriptions per name entry is varied from 1 to many (due to pronunciation differences associated with the distinct speech varieties), with an average of 3.89 per entry.
Most callers speak either Standard American English or Northern Inland English, though there are a number of other English speech varieties represented as well, including foreign-accented English (especially Chinese and Indian language accents).
Many other words belong to MLE – multi-ethnic or cultural London English – sometimes derided as jafaican, the speech variety influenced by Caribbean usages and parodied by Ali G and TV comedy Phoneshop.
The survey investigates inter-coder consistency with respect to both phonetic environment and speech variety, with results showing that reliability is dependent on both factors.
Another obvious problem of vowel purity is the fact that the Book of Odes from which the rhyme categories are drawn does not reflect a coherent speech variety that was spoken at a single place and time (Baxter 1992: 343 366).
Likewise, the Eskayan speech variety has been associated with languages as disparate as Hebrew, Greek, and Etruscan.
In Obama's speech a variety of reasons were given for the United States to continue fighting in Afghanistan.
6. Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.
You can do that speech in a variety of ways, either stressing its emotional anger or lovingly caressing its beauty.
