An Experimental Study on Oriya - English Accent

This Paper presents an experimental method to define the acoustic characteristics of the English accent of Oriya speakers. An attempt is made here to extract the acoustic features by labeling and segmenting the expression of words into corresponding syllables and phonemes. The accent features are demonstrated both in qualitative and quantitative way. And this study also highlights how the Oriya English accent changes the syllable structure and syllable stress pattern of English at the word …

…characteristics where the accent variation is substantial. This accent variation may be happened due to the social, educational and geographical factors of the Oriya speakers who are exposed to English as a second language at later stage of Primary or early stage of High school education. Key words: Spectrographic, spectrum, Oriya- English accent, minimal pairs, isolated vs. continuous speech, Oriya vowel system, English vowel system, Accent dependant feature, Accent independent features, substantial variation, negligible variation,