The Structure of English

Bérces, Katalin Balogné

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“…After all, Shrek is the head of a group which is neglected in Far Far Away: non-standard accent users (Pimentel & Velázquez, 2008) such as Donkey, Puss-in-Boots or any of the minor fairy tale characters like the German-accented three little pigs (Mudriczki, 2014, 57.). Shrek is also forced to change due to his Scottishness, akin to how England historically exerted influence on Scotland, both culturally -proved most astutely by their prohibition of the traditional Highlander way of life after the Second Jacobite Rebellion -and linguistically -as seen with the prevalence of SSE compared to Scots starting in the 18 th century (Balogné Bérces, 2008;Stuart-Smith, 2014;Jones, 1993). Similarly, Far Far Away likewise influences Shrek to blend in: he turns into a human in the middle of the movie in order to meet the expectations placed around him (Pimentel & Velázquez, 2008).…”

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The Representation of the Scottish Accent in Hollywood Movies and TV Series

Gimpl

2023

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Both Scottish culture and the Scottish accent have been oft misrepresented in Hollywood movies and TV series starting in the 20th century and continuing into the 21st. The purpose of this paper is to analyse said misrepresentations, determine why characters are given Scottish accents, how that accent contributes to their characterisation and what kind of character types tend to receive the Scottish accent. The paper concludes that the Scottish accent is selected for certain characters because the previous success of Scotland-based Hollywood movies has made the accent popular among audiences, thus Hollywood, utilising what has worked before and seeing the popularity of the accent, decided to bestow the accent to more characters. It is also given to characters to make them humorous; the accent sounding foreign makes it funny for American audiences, thus many comic relief characters have got it. Tough-as-nails and masculine characters can likewise receive Scottish accents. Moreover, certain archetypes are assigned with the accent in mind by default, such as the Highlander warrior and dwarves, its usage in their case being questionable notwithstanding. Lastly, having a Scottish accent is integral to characterisation, which is exemplified by analysing Shrek, McDuck and three other hyper-stereotypical cartoon characters.

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The Representation of the Scottish Accent in Hollywood Movies and TV Series

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2023

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“…However, voicing in obstruents is phonologically inactive, not playing a role in assimilatory processes. I argue that it is rather this behavior of the obstruents that should inform the phonological grammar, which means that prevoiced obstruents are phonologically unspecified for voicing (for analyses positing the same markedness relations in Swedish, see, e.g., Cyran 2017: 501-502 andBalogné Bérces &Huszthy 2018: 163-164; this issue is also touched upon in chapter 4). I argue that the said tendency only supports the assumption of language-specific phonetics-along with cross-linguistic variation in the amount of passive voicing in obstruents.…”

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“…In the analyses of BalognéBérces (2017) andHuszthy (2019), the difference between languages like standard English or Italian (lacking laryngeal activity) and languages like Yorkshire English (displaying laryngeal assimilation) is already encoded in the phonological representation. The authors apply the obstruency-marking nonlaryngeal element |h|, considered to be incapable of spreading, to represent the opposition between the obstruent series in English or Italian and use the mobile |H| in the case of Yorkshire English.…”

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The representation of voicing. A unified analysis of languages with two obstruent series as “aspirating” systems

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Kaye (1992a: 295-296) distinguishes a weaker and a stronger version of the Uniformity Principle: "sequences of contiguous positions that are in a governing relation and contain the same phonological material have the same constituent structure" within a given language vs. in all languages. 10 Ironically, the term "atomic" is still used as a synonym for indivisible, in spite of the fact that we have known for a while that atoms are actually reducible to subatomic particles. In this sense, phonological segments are, in fact, atomic.

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“Transylvanian Hunglish” Phonological Properties of Hungarian Accented English in Transylvania

Huszthy

2022

Hungarian Studies Yearbook

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Hunglish is a term for Hungarian native speakers’ English pronunciation. It is a well recognisable and quite homogeneous accent, which is thoroughly described in the literature of second language acquisition. However, this paper proposes that Hungarian speakers living in Romania use a phonologically different Hunglish compared to those living in Hungary. The study is built on direct speech recordings made with 30 Hungarian speakers descending from various parts of Transylvania. Their accent is confronted with the pronunciation of 15 speakers from Hungary, who participated in the same reading experiment. Results indicate that the English pronunciation of the two groups mostly share the same phonetic and phonological features. Only a few persistent phonological differences can be identified; for instance, English open back vowels [ʌ, ɒ, ɑ] are replaced with Hungarian [ɒ] by the Transylvanian informants, and with [a] by the speakers from Hungary; Transylvanian informants preserve more English schwas and diphthongs due to their L2 Romanian, etc. The differences basically originate in the fact that Transylvanian speakers’ interlanguage is much more heterogeneous than that of Hungarians’, i.e. Transylvanians speak a substandard version of Hungarian as L1, they speak a Transylvanian dialect, they speak Romanian at high level as L2, and they usually speak further foreign languages as well beyond English; these varieties all affect their foreign accent. The paper takes account of the most important characteristics of Transylvanian Hunglish, with a synchronic phono-logical analysis, and a contrastive analysis with the general phonological properties of Hunglish found in the literature.

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The Structure of English

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The Representation of the Scottish Accent in Hollywood Movies and TV Series

The Representation of the Scottish Accent in Hollywood Movies and TV Series

The representation of voicing. A unified analysis of languages with two obstruent series as “aspirating” systems

“Transylvanian Hunglish” Phonological Properties of Hungarian Accented English in Transylvania

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