Accents & dialects for stage and screen
Subtitle: an instruction manual for 24 accents and dialects commonly used by English-speaking actors
By: by Paul Meier
Edition: Edition 22 [new, improved ed.].
Publisher: Paul Meier Dialect Services
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780615461502
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: English language; Dialects; Pronunciation by foreign speakers; Phonology; Acting; Accents and accentuation
Other titles: Accents and dialects for stage and screen
Notes: "For use with 12 accompanying CDs."

CDs have copyright date of 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-370).
Table of contents: title: 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; title: British and Irish dialects. Cockney ; Hampshire ; Irish ; Liverpool ; Northern Ireland ; Scottish ; Standard British, received pronunciation ; Welsh ; Yorkshire; title: Dialects of the United States; title: American Southern : Kentucky, Tennessee, southern Illinois, eastern Missouri ; Deep South : Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi ; Downeast New England ; General American ; New York ; South Boston; title: Other English-language dialects. Australian ; Indian; title: Foreign-language accents. Afrikaans ; French ; German ; Italian ; Russian ; Spanish ; Yiddish; title: Testing, training, and certification; title: Works cited.; title: CDs: -- 1.; title: The Afrikaans accent ;; title: the downeast New England dialect -- -- 2.; title: The Australian dialect ;; title: the Indian dialect -- -- 3.; title: The deep South dialect ;; title: the Scottish dialect -- -- 4.; title: A French accent ;; title: a Russian accent -- -- 5.; title: The General American dialect ;; title: the Hampshire dialect -- -- 6.; title: A German accent ;; title: a Spanish accent -- -- 7.; title: The Irish dialect ;; title: the dialect of Northern Ireland -- -- 8.; title: An Italian accent ;; title: the Welsh dialect -- -- 9.; title: The Liverpool dialect ;; title: the Yorkshire dialect -- -- 10.; title: The standard British English dialect ;; title: the Cockney dialect -- -- 11.; title: The American Southern dialect ;; title: The New York dialect -- -- 12.; title: The South Boston dialect ;; title: a Yiddish accent.