Essays on Intonation

Globally, people make assumptions, judgments, and decisions about one another or things around them based on responses they receive from others. These assumptions are according to nonverbal communications that people use within their own cultures and how they deal with others. Often, these nonverbal reactions affect the way people communicate with and among each other, which makes understanding these nonverbal cues crucial when developing and maintaining relationships with other people. Do people expect other cultures to adapt to their own culture or are they willing to adopt another person’s culture? Are people expected to compromise or are they ...

In the present global workforce, clear and concise speech is an important element of success. Language and communication barriers hinder individuals from achieving both their professional and personal goals. Furthermore, it blocks companies from achieving leadership and productivity levels that they desire (Borodin 31). As a result, accent reduction programs are designed to help individuals from diverse cultural and racial backgrounds to speak English with precision and clarity. The regional variations in English persist in America, despite the belief that print and media firms are championing for homogeneous English programs (Lippi-Green 27). An accent is used in distinguishing intonation ...

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Question #1 The three segments of spectrograms reflect three different sounds, the first one is consonant, the second is a vowel, and the last one is consonant as well. The first consonant is voiceless and the last one is voiced. The main evidence supporting this statement is that in the first case, F1 is below 2000 Hz, which characterizes the voiceless consonants that are formed without the utilization of the voice. Their pronunciation does not characterize with the vibration in the throat. The third consonant is voiced, which can be shown by its characteristics of the F1, which is ...

Voice and its role in the understanding of an organizational issue or organizational practice.

Introduction Voice is a major part of the communication process. The voice used affects the way an individual processes information. There are many different aspects of voice such as tone, and pitch(Scherer & Sander 2005). The following essay discusses the impact that using voice on employees possesses and the ways I which voice aids our understanding of the organizational practice and organizational issue.

Voice is defined as an active attempt to air out dissatisfaction and search for ways to resolve the dissatisfaction and advice changes (Bryant, 2006). It is when employees or consumers inform the high level of issues ...

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It is customary for the non-native speakers to substitute the correct pronunciation of the words with their versions of vowels and consonants. There are patterns of pronunciation of words in every language and it is believed that the non-native speakers utilize their habitual pronunciation of the new language. These patterns in language may persist at different levels. Some of the non-native speakers tend to learn new language faster, the others retain the traces of native language in their patterns of pronunciation through the years. This may root in different factors, such as the duration of practice in new language, ...

Each person participates in social life. A particular way of communication makes it possible to achieve a special aim by establishing the contact with the person: obtaining some information, meeting the mental necessity for communication, etc. Communication represents exchange of information for effective interconnection. Non-verbal communication occupies a greater percentage of the connection between people. So, non-verbal communication can be interpreted as such a behavior of a person that signals about emotional status and the nature of the interaction between communicating individuals. Non-verbal communication means can be expressed in different ways. For example, it may be clothes, hairstyle, facial ...

During the sixties, the civil right movement has spread, throughout United States, recognizing awareness everywhere in the world, as the Black Americans’ socio-political and economic revolt against the white treatment. Years after the end of slavery in United States, the status of the African Americans knew little changes, as they had no democratic rights, such as the right to vote, and they were publicly humiliated and brutalized, while the segregation still disallowed them to enter restaurants or other public spaces, despite the avid work of activists as Martin Luther King Jr. (Malcolm X “The Ballot or the Bullet”). Blacks ...

Examining and understanding linguistics in criminal and domestic setting involve language evidence. The language evidence exists in trademark area disputes, question authorship and product liability. Heffer, 2005 asserts that some forensic language view language analysis to be the only content in the discipline. Language analysis adheres to the definition of discipline in which the language derives its foundation. I, therefore, determined the conception of forensic linguistic, which is the intersection of law and language. After reading Heffer, 2005, I established the aim of the intersection, and I realized the bases that support the language. I realized that language differs ...