Just downloaded the text I have to present in my seminar on Friday. Is a text only I have to read as is presentation-specific i.e. not essential lecture/seminar reading.
I chose 'Englishes in the Southern Hemisphere' as my presentation topic and chose one of the 2 possible texts at random
Is a 21 page document on the differences of vocalization of /l/ in Australian and New Zealand English - FYI can be postvocalic in coda postion, postvocalic in a cluster or syllabic. How on earth Horvath & Horvath have manged to waffle on for 21 pages on the differences in realisation of /l/ in the words feel, milk and pickle, I do not know. It's admirable, really!
How the hell do I create a 20-minute powerpoint presentation on this that is interesting enough to keep the class (and myself) awake? /l/ in Brisbane English is the least vocalised, and /l/ in Christchurch English is the most vocalised. This is about all I have grasped from this text by the end of page 4. Is so boring I cannot bring myself to read any further tonight!
Well anyway, Barbara M Horvath and Ronald J Horvath are clearly a very boring married couple who have nothing better to do than write a stupid study on the pronunciation of /l/ which
is aimed at postgrad students actually interested in this ridiculous area of sociolinguistics. Undergrad students studying one or maybe two modules of linguistics a year should not be obliged to read, study and present such texts!!!
Have also been freaking out my flatmates by playing audio recordings off Blackboard/Sanako for my French & Spanish interpreting modules! They thought I was entertaining foreign businessmen in my room! At least they were semi-aware I was not just having a conversation with myself! When it got to recording my own voice using sanako lite I encountered technical problems, though. Says is recording and the timer resets to zero etc but it won't playback for some reason. Means I can't do my homework until I can figure out where I'm going wrong. The installation etc instructions given by the head of Spanish seem pretty foolproof, and I followed them word for word.....Have managed to download it and listen to the sample recordings easily enough, just can't record. Oh well, emailed my tutor to say I was having problems but I sincerely doubt she'll be able to help me out on the technical front!
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