A. Pronunciation Tips

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The New York City Dialect

Part II. Focus on Language

C. Making connections

Express yourself as personally as you like in your answers to the following questions:

1. How is urbanisation viewed in our society? Is it considered to be a positive or negative social process? Does the attitude to big city life described by Toni Morrison reflect the corresponding stereotype common in our country?

2. Should people nowadays seek to move to urban areas rather than stay where they are born for the whole life?

3. What do you imagine life in big cities will be like in the future?

The New York City dialect(often ridiculed as Noo Yawk Tawk) is one of the most recognisable accents within American English. It is closely confined to the geographically small but densely populated New York City region, which consists of the city's five Boroughs (see the plan – The Five Boroughs of New York City: 1:Manhattan 2:Brooklyn 3:Queens 4:The Bronx 5:Staten Island), the western half of Long Island, southern Westchester, Rockland County and parts of northeast New Jersey. New York dialect is predominantly characterised by the following sounds and speech patterns: