Did America Invade The Beatles as they invaded America? - A comparative analysis on The Beatles' accent in former and later years

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Autor(a) principal: Backes Nunes, Mariana
Data de Publicação: 2017
Outros Autores: Nunes Azzi, Júlia
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Entrepalavras
Texto Completo: http://www.entrepalavras.ufc.br/revista/index.php/Revista/article/view/639
Resumo: The present study aims to understand why some British singers sound like Americans when they sing, using, as an example, the Liverpool band The Beatles. Also, it tends to verify if there are any accent changes in the beginning and in the end of The Beatles’ career. In order to have an overview of the band, eight songs from two different albums, which represent those two different phases of the band - With The Beatles (1963) and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) - were analyzed and compared taking into account the variants of two phonemes (the consonants r and t) in the standard varieties of English from America and Britain. Findings suggest that, although there are oscillations between American and British accents in both albums, With The Beatles has more incidences of words pronounced with an American accent than Sgt. Pepper’s.  Therefore, the paper discusses some possible reasons for these changes in accent and tries to reflect about this phenomenon relating it to the movement of British Invasion in the USA in the 60s.
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spelling Did America Invade The Beatles as they invaded America? - A comparative analysis on The Beatles' accent in former and later yearsSociolinguística e DialetologiaVariação linguísticaThe present study aims to understand why some British singers sound like Americans when they sing, using, as an example, the Liverpool band The Beatles. Also, it tends to verify if there are any accent changes in the beginning and in the end of The Beatles’ career. In order to have an overview of the band, eight songs from two different albums, which represent those two different phases of the band - With The Beatles (1963) and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) - were analyzed and compared taking into account the variants of two phonemes (the consonants r and t) in the standard varieties of English from America and Britain. Findings suggest that, although there are oscillations between American and British accents in both albums, With The Beatles has more incidences of words pronounced with an American accent than Sgt. Pepper’s.  Therefore, the paper discusses some possible reasons for these changes in accent and tries to reflect about this phenomenon relating it to the movement of British Invasion in the USA in the 60s.Universidade Federal do CearáBackes Nunes, MarianaNunes Azzi, Júlia2017-03-31info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttp://www.entrepalavras.ufc.br/revista/index.php/Revista/article/view/639Entrepalavras; v. 7, n. 4 esp (7): Estudos em Teoria e Análise Linguística; 46-65Entrepalavras; v. 7, n. 4 esp (7): Estudos em Teoria e Análise Linguística; 46-65Entrepalavras; v. 7, n. 4 esp (7): Estudos em Teoria e Análise Linguística; 46-65Entrepalavras; v. 7, n. 4 esp (7): Estudos em Teoria e Análise Linguística; 46-65Entrepalavras; v. 7, n. 4 esp (7): Estudos em Teoria e Análise Linguística; 46-652237-6321reponame:Entrepalavrasinstname:Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)instacron:UFCenghttp://www.entrepalavras.ufc.br/revista/index.php/Revista/article/view/639/373Direitos autorais 2017 Entrepalavrasinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess2019-04-30T21:17:35Zoai:ojs.localhost:article/639Revistahttp://www.entrepalavras.ufc.br/revista/index.php/Revista/indexPUBhttp://www.entrepalavras.ufc.br/revista/index.php/Revista/oaiwebmaster@entrepalavras.ufc.br||editor@entrepalavras.ufc.br2237-63212237-6321opendoar:2019-04-30T21:17:35Entrepalavras - Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)false
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title Did America Invade The Beatles as they invaded America? - A comparative analysis on The Beatles' accent in former and later years
spellingShingle Did America Invade The Beatles as they invaded America? - A comparative analysis on The Beatles' accent in former and later years
Backes Nunes, Mariana
Sociolinguística e Dialetologia
Variação linguística
title_short Did America Invade The Beatles as they invaded America? - A comparative analysis on The Beatles' accent in former and later years
title_full Did America Invade The Beatles as they invaded America? - A comparative analysis on The Beatles' accent in former and later years
title_fullStr Did America Invade The Beatles as they invaded America? - A comparative analysis on The Beatles' accent in former and later years
title_full_unstemmed Did America Invade The Beatles as they invaded America? - A comparative analysis on The Beatles' accent in former and later years
title_sort Did America Invade The Beatles as they invaded America? - A comparative analysis on The Beatles' accent in former and later years
author Backes Nunes, Mariana
author_facet Backes Nunes, Mariana
Nunes Azzi, Júlia
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author2 Nunes Azzi, Júlia
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Backes Nunes, Mariana
Nunes Azzi, Júlia
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Variação linguística
topic Sociolinguística e Dialetologia
Variação linguística
description The present study aims to understand why some British singers sound like Americans when they sing, using, as an example, the Liverpool band The Beatles. Also, it tends to verify if there are any accent changes in the beginning and in the end of The Beatles’ career. In order to have an overview of the band, eight songs from two different albums, which represent those two different phases of the band - With The Beatles (1963) and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) - were analyzed and compared taking into account the variants of two phonemes (the consonants r and t) in the standard varieties of English from America and Britain. Findings suggest that, although there are oscillations between American and British accents in both albums, With The Beatles has more incidences of words pronounced with an American accent than Sgt. Pepper’s.  Therefore, the paper discusses some possible reasons for these changes in accent and tries to reflect about this phenomenon relating it to the movement of British Invasion in the USA in the 60s.
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