Stage DialectsChandler Publishing Company, 1967 - 156 pages Instruction for the actor in imitating the Japanese, Brooklyn, American Southern, standard English, Cockney, Irish, Scots, French, Italian, German, and Russian dialects and/or accents. |
Common terms and phrases
accent action actor alteration American auld auld lang syne back vowel beautiful becomes bird Brooklynese characteristic Cockney Consonant Substitutions Daniel Jones delivery dialectician Diphthongal Changes distinctive dropped elongation employed enunciation EXERCISES Key-Sound Word father Fluency Practice French dialect fricative consonant German dialect girl glottal stop hear heard idiom INDIVIDUAL-PRACTICE EXERCISES Key-Sound instances Irish dialect Italian dialect Japanese dialect Jerry Blunt key sounds Key-Sound Word Drill language Larry Moss London medial nasal native person play plosive consonants primary-source pronounced pronunciation Reading and Fluency Reading for Fluency result schwa schwa vowel Scotch Scots Sentence Context Sight Reading slurred sonant Sounds in Sentence Southern speak speaker stage dialect Standard English street strength stress strong syllable talk tape thing tion tongue trilled usual utterance vocal Voice voiceless vowel sound Vowel Substitutions wh hw