【词汇大师】听不懂的英语口音（2/2）

英语自学网

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一个东北学生听不懂温州学生的方言，只好用英语交流。那么英语就没有方言吗？肯定有啊~~
TIPS

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本篇对话中，主持人的对话不需要听写，只需听写嘉宾的话
主持人对话①"That's so true.""Never thought about that, but yeah.""And then lastly why don't you tell us a little bit about what happens when -- you did, I guess, some experiments with getting people to use pronouns while thinking of something else?"
主持人对话②"Because they....."
hints
dummy pronoun
arguably
Jennifer Arnold at University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
Corey

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戳节目订阅，掌握节目最新动态。"So a dummy pronoun is basically just a pronoun that we shove into English sentences because we have to have a subject. So we have to say 'It is raining.' We can't just say 'Raining.' So even though 'it' arguably doesn't mean anything -- you could argue that it means the weather or something like, but really we're just sticking it in there because we have to make the sentence grammatical."
"So if you ask someone -- and this experiment was actually done by Jennifer Arnold at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and I think she actually gave participants numbers that they had to keep track of while telling a story, I think it was. And she found that they used fewer pronouns. They just kept repeating the proper name over and over again.
"So I give an example of someone engaged in this task and they would really be using pronouns very inappropriately. They would just say 'Corey's doing great today. Corey's had a lovely breakfast, and Corey's going to be exercising pretty soon.' Just basically repeating Corey over and over again because they couldn't keep track of how salient Corey was to the listener."