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1、TheDifferenceBetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishAbstract:Englishisoneofthemostimportantlanguagesintheworld.Itisveryimportantbecauseofitsworldwideuse.Englishhasahistoryofaboutsixhundredyears,developingfromalocallanguagespokenbyasmallnumberofpeopleinEnglandtoitspre
2、sentpositionasaveryimportantlanguagespokenbylargenumbersofpeopleintheworld.Becauseofthedifferenthistoricalbackgrounds,geographicalenvironmentsandsocialdevelopmentsintheEnglishusedcountries,Englishhasmanyvarieties,suchasBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish.Anyhow,toEnglis
3、hlearners,grassingBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishcangiverisetoourbetterunderstandingofwesternculture.Keywords:AmericanEnglish,BritishEnglish,language,varieties摘要：英语是世界上最重要的语言之一，由于是全球通用的语言，因此英语十分重要。英语已有六百多年的历史。在英国，英语从只有少数当地人说的语言发展成为目前被世界上许多人使用的一门重要语言。由于英语使用国家不同的历史背景、
4、地理环境以及社会发展，英语已形成了许多不同的类型。无论如何，对于英语学习者来说，了解美式英语与英式英语能够使我们更好的了解西方文化。关键词：美式英语，英式英语，语言，类型Ⅰ.IntroductionBasedonBritishEnglish,AmericanEnglishbeganinthe17thcentury.Atthebeginningofthe17thcenturytheEnglishlanguagewasbroughttoNorthAmericabycolonistsfromEngland.Britainestabli
5、shedalotofcoloniesinAmerican.WiththeBritishandothercountriesimmigrantscrowdingintoAmerican,thecultureandeconomymultiplydaybyday,andEnglishchangedalotasamothertongue,soitgraduallyformedcharacterizedAmericanEnglish.Althoughthesetwovarietieshavealotincommon,theydifferin
6、manydetails,suchassounds,stress,spelling,vocabulary,habitandsoon.Ⅱ.ThedifferencebetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishA.DifferencesinindividualsoundsEventhesameword,itspronounciationcanbedifferent.BrEAmE/a://æ/:ask/a:sk//æsk/dance/da:ns//dæns//ɒ//ɒ:/fog/fɒg//fɒ:g/mo
7、ss/mɒss//mɒ:s/(现代英语词汇学P200页)B.Differencesinstress1.Pronounciationoflongerwords:BritishEnglishtendstostressstronglyonesyllale,usuallythefirstandhurriesovertherestoftheword.AmericanEnglishtendstoputthestressonthefirstsyllablebutalsotoputasecondarystressonthelattersylla
8、bleandpronouncestheremainingsyllablesmredistinctly.BrEAmEdecorative2.Differentstressesonthesamewords:(英语词汇学引论P384页)C.Differencesins
