ABSTRACT

This a comprehensive workbook for actors, covering the key characteristics and profiles of a wide range of African accents of English. Its unique approach not only addresses the methods and processes by which to go about learning an accent, but also looks in detail at each example. Full breakdowns of each accent cover:key characteristics such as melody, stress, pace and pitch descriptions of physical articulation in the tongue, lips, jaw, palate and pharynx and practice sentences, phoneme tables and worksheets for solo study. This chapter explains back vowel sound shifts of the Ugandan language.