Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3a) Rowan Atkinson speaks in a “standard English accent”....................................................3b) The Phonetics features of speech which makes difficulty for average Malaysian Englishlanguage speaker to understand this speech...........................................................................4CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................8
INTRODUCTIONThe word phonetics is driven from Greek word “phone” which means sound or voice.Phonetics means to produce the correct sound while speaking a word and to make correctpronunciation (English Phonetics and Phonology, 2018). While speaking a standardized word incertain areas people can understand words properly and no misunderstanding situation is createddue to pronouncing the word. As sound are created to considered the human speech whilespeaking certain words. The person who is expert in phonetic and is able to make sound as wellas pronunciation clearly are known as phoneticians. The phonology is basically classified intosounds within the human system. If people understand phonetics then it become very easy forthem to understand speech as well as words. This report includes the standardised Englishaccentand phonetics features. Malaysian English is quite different as they can't understand thephonetics English. MAIN BODYa) Does Rowan Atkinson speaks in a “standard English accent”.Accent means speaking a word in an identifiable style of pronunciation which are oftenvarying regionally or even socio-economically (Baxter and Lowrey, 2014). The standard Englishaccent is not related with pronunciations but through this it is actually identified that where theperson actually came from. The accent needs be perfect while speaking standard English. It'smandatory for people to speak a word with correct pronunciation or else it won't beunderstandable to others and misunderstanding situation will be created. This standard Englishportray that which country that person belongs, in phonetics people are focused more aboutsounds rather than grammes. Rowan Atkinson belongs to United kingdom so he speaks inBritish accent (Chen and et. al., 2014). In court, newspapers, church, media and official purposecertain rules speaking as well as in writing English certain rules are set for English. The personin video is belongs to defence that's why he speaks in standard English as well as he use theBritish accent as well. The photonics are used in some area by people to make them different
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