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1、PhoneticDifferencesbetweenAmericanandBritishEnglishAsweallknow,therearemanydifferencesbetweenAmericanandBritishsoundsuchassentencestress,intonation,overallsoundandvoicequality,etc.Wehavelearnedaboutthedifferencesconcretelythissemester.Thereisverylittleempiricalresearchavailable
2、ondifferencesinsentencestressbetweenGAandBritishEnglish.BritishEnglishsometimesgiveslightstresstothefrontedauxiliaryverbwhereasGAusuallydoesnot.Forinstance,thestressesbetweenGAandBritishEnglishonthesentence‘Iwanttoseeafriendofmine.’aredifferent.InBritishEnglish,want,seeandfrien
3、dareallstressful,butInGAEnglish,onlyfriendareallstressful.Theoretically,theBritishintonationbeginswithamarkedrise,thenagradualfallwithafinalglidedownonthelastsyllable.TheGAintonationbeginswithamuchsmallerrise-fall,maintainingamid-levelpitchwithamarkedrise-and-fallglideonthefina
4、lsyllable.BritishEnglishhasagreaterpitchrangeandamoresteplikemovementfromhightolowwhereasGAmaintainsaflatorslightlywavymid-leveluntilthefinalcontouroftheutterance.HerewehavepartofHilaryClinton’sendorsementspeechasanexample:Somewillsaywecan’tdoit,thatistoohard,wearejustnotuptoth
5、etask.ButforaslongasAmericahasexisted,ithasbeentheAmericanwaytorejectcan’tdoplansandtochooseinstead,thestretchthebinderiesinthepastofallthetoohardworkandterminationandpioneeringexperience,butitisthisbelief,thisoptimismthatsedaterObamaandIshareandthathasinspiredsomanymillionsofo
6、ursupporterstomaketheirvoicesheard,sotodayIamstandingwithsedaterObamatosay“yeswecan!”Herewehavepartofareadingmaterialofthenovelatonementasanotherexample:AftertwostronggincocktailsinthedrawingroomwithLeonandhissister,Marshallhadcomeupstairstofindhisroom,unpackandchangefordinner.
7、Fromthesetwoexamplesabove,wecanseethattheGAhasamuchsmallerrise-fall.Comparatively,theGAtendstouseahighfall-risemorecommonlythanBritishspeakers.Americanspeakerstendtousearelativenarrowpitchrange,whileBritishspeakershaveawiderpitchrange.Therefore,comparedwiththeAmericans’relative
8、lyplainandsteadytone,Britishintonationsoundsmoremusica