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Abstract This chapter analyses the ways in which individuals may encounter ‘accentism’. Accentism refers to the discrimination of a person or group based on the way they speak, which engages linguistic ideologies that intersect with nationality, region, country of origin, and social class background to divide and separate people who ...
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1995
Abstract In many languages particular syllables have special prominence relative to others. This prominence, which is the result of variations of amplitude or pitch of voiced phones (or spans of phones), goes by the name accent. Traditionally one speaks of two species of accent: stress accent and pitch accent (alternatively, musical ...
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Abstract In many languages particular syllables have special prominence relative to others. This prominence, which is the result of variations of amplitude or pitch of voiced phones (or spans of phones), goes by the name accent. Traditionally one speaks of two species of accent: stress accent and pitch accent (alternatively, musical ...
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2012
AbstractTôkyô Japanese has been described as a pitch accent system which contains tonic and atonic words,and has been extensively described and analysed both in and outside Japan. After presenting the basic mechanism of present day Tôkyô Japanese accentuation and offering a summary of two theoretical treatments of it, the chapter enters into the ...
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AbstractTôkyô Japanese has been described as a pitch accent system which contains tonic and atonic words,and has been extensively described and analysed both in and outside Japan. After presenting the basic mechanism of present day Tôkyô Japanese accentuation and offering a summary of two theoretical treatments of it, the chapter enters into the ...
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