Dal Accent Clinic

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[Dal Accent Clinic @dalaccentclinic]

It's been five years of working with English speakers from around the world! Wow! /faɪv jɪrz/! #MyTwitterAnniversary #AccentMod #SLP #SLT #slp2b #phonetics #phonology

[Dal Accent Clinic @dalaccentclinic]

A great example of multiple languages opening doors for flexibility at work! Look at how many news outlets this reporter works for! He's reporting in 6 languages! #SLP #SLT #slp2b #slpeeps #AccentMod

[Philip Crowther @PhCrowther]

Six-language coverage from #Kyiv with @AP_GMS. In this order: English, Luxembourgish, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.

[Dal Accent Clinic @dalaccentclinic]

Sorry, Nova Scotia! I'm not booking any new assessments for 2021 - I'm already too busy with existing clients. I'll be thrilled to meet you in 2022, though! Email me at speech at dal dot ca if you'd like an accent assessment. #SLP #AccentMod #SLT #slpeeps #slp2b

[Dal Accent Clinic @dalaccentclinic]

@ImproveAccent Hello from the East Coast of Canada! We don't, here! /ʌ/ in both cases.

[Dal Accent Clinic @dalaccentclinic]

In Canada, we usually call this season "fall." Do you have the /f/ sounds in your 1st language? You make it by putting your top teeth on your lower lip and steadily blowing air. Keep the air moving and use your teeth. That's the /f/! #AccentMod #SLP #slpeeps #SLT #slp2b

[Luke Nicholson @ImproveAccent]

When the <re> prefix means "again", it takes secondary stress rather than the primary (main) stress in verbs. For example: reREAD, reWRITE, reDO. A headline from last week was "PM rejigs his top team" - the verb here is "reJIG" /ˌriːˈdʒɪɡ/.

[𓄣 d🫀ug henning 𒊮 @likethemagician]

When your dialect has both nonrhoticity and the cot-caught merger

[Dal Accent Clinic @dalaccentclinic]

@ImproveAccent @csherwooddavis As a native Canadian English speaker here, I'm more aligned with CSD here. It's a big ol' bowl of vowels, not just the one.

[Dal Accent Clinic @dalaccentclinic]

Four years on Twitter? Wow! Does a language you speak have the /ɔɹ/ combination that's in /fɔɹ/? Does that language even use /ɹ/ at the ends of words? Not all do, but Canadian English mostly does! #MyTwitterAnniversary #AccentMod #SLP #SLT #SLP2B #slpeeps

[Dal Accent Clinic @dalaccentclinic]

There is some pay for translating approx. one page of poetry into these languages, with a grant from of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Seoul Foundation of Arts and Culture. 4/4

[Dal Accent Clinic @dalaccentclinic]

An artist in Nova Scotia is looking for native speakers of various languages for an art project commemorating civilian victims of the Korean War. 1/4

[Dal Accent Clinic @dalaccentclinic]

Algeria (Arabic)
Argentina (Spanish)
Austria (German)
Belgium (French)
China (Mandarin or Cantonese)
Cuba (Spanish, 20-40yo)
Czech Rep. (Czech)
Denmark (Danish)
Germany (German)
Italy (Italian)
Netherlands (Dutch)
Russia (Russian)
Tunisia (Arabic)
Vietnam (Vietnamese) 3/4

[Partition Education Group @PartitionGroup]

We are looking for Bengali/Punjabi writers to speak at an event for #SouthAsianHeritageMonth exploring language change since Partition. Please DM if interested! @SAHM_UK @SthAsianWriters

[Dal Accent Clinic @dalaccentclinic]

@ImproveAccent Ooooh nice!

[Dal Accent Clinic @dalaccentclinic]

@LaymansLinguist Addendum: or native English speakers whose accent is non-local.

[Dal Accent Clinic @dalaccentclinic]

@LaymansLinguist I'm a Speech and Language Pathologist who works in Accent Addition. My main interest is phonology, and training non-native speakers to both perceive and produce North American English speech sounds.

[Dal Accent Clinic @dalaccentclinic]

Those of us in Accent Modification help people in many fields improve confidence in communication. Here's a good example of very high stakes communication! #AccentMod #SLP #SLT #slp2b #slpeeps #punintended
https://t.co/ubn2oJ2OOG

[Dal Accent Clinic @dalaccentclinic]

Beautifully put! We have to pay attention to the last SOUND when pluralizing, and not get too distracted by the SPELLING. #SLP #AccentMod #SLT #slp2b #slpeeps #englishspellingistrash

[Luke Nicholson @ImproveAccent]

When a noun ends in <ch>, the plural depends on how these letters are pronounced. For <couch>, the plural is with [ɪz] because <ch> is pronounced [ʧ]: <couches>. For <monarch> the plural is with [s] because <ch> is pronounced as [k]: <monarchs>.