Accents and Dialects Estuary English and MLE

Question 1

what is Estuary English?

Answer 1

combination of london regional dialect and RP

Question 2

Fetaures of Estuary English

Answer 2

glottal stop replaces /t/- le’er
/l/ pronounced w
negating adverb ‘never’
tag questions ‘didn’t i?’

Question 3

what is the social significance of Estuary English?

Answer 3

some adopt accents to blend in and appear more working class (mockney)
part of young middle class moving away from RP
pejorative connotations ‘awful Estuary English’

Question 4

what is MLE?

Answer 4

based of cockney dialect with immigration

Question 5

Fetaures of MLE

Answer 5

short trajectories for vowel sound ‘face’
goose vowels /u/ ‘food’
gragmatic markers ‘you get me’

Question 6

what did Gary Ives Bradford research study?

Answer 6

new dialect used by young speakers in bradford

Question 7

what did Ives find?

Answer 7

teenage boys:
code switched
used 1st person plural possessive pronoun
generational shift
distinguished themselves as ‘freshies’

Question 8

what did Ives study show?

Answer 8

how language is used to create a well defined social identity