Accents & dialects for stage and screen : an instruction manual for 24 accents and dialects commonly used by English-speaking actors by Meier, Paul, 1947 February 17- author instant download

Accents & dialects for stage and screen : an instruction manual for 24 accents and dialects commonly used by English-speaking actors by Meier, Paul, 1947 February 17- author instant download

370 pages : 28 cm +, \"For use with 12 accompanying CDs.\", CDs have copyright date of 2007, Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-370), Before we begin. Acting in a dialect or an accent ; International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) ; International Dialects of English Archive ; Standard lexical sets ; Comma gets a cure, special diagnostic passage ; Paul Meier Dialect Services ; For instructors ; The seven-step method ; Glossary -- British and Irish dialects. Cockney ; Hampshire ; Irish ; Liverpool ; Northern Ireland ; Scottish ; Standard British, received pronunciation ; Welsh ; Yorkshire -- Dialects of the United States -- American Southern : Kentucky, Tennessee, southern Illinois, eastern Missouri ; Deep South : Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi ; Downeast New England ; General American ; New York ; South Boston -- Other English-language dialects. Australian ; Indian -- Foreign-language accents. Afrikaans ; French ; German ; Italian ; Russian ; Spanish ; Yiddish -- Testing, training, and certification -- Works cited