Accents Flashcards
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What did john ayto believe
Cockney rhyming slang originally used by criminals and beggars
Has become idiomatic due to social mobility
Gave the accent connotations of criminals
What did milroy do
Studied 3 inner city working class communities in Northern Ireland High density social networks had the strongest accents
What did Paul Kerswill find
Dialect levelling is caused by interaction with other speech varieties converging, reducing diversity
What did labov due
Studied the use of prestigious rhotic r in New York
Saks, s klein and macys
Asked a question which would require the answer “fourth floor”
Saks used the most prestigious variant
Macys used it less frequently but showed the greatest upper shift
What are different attitudes to regional accents
Liverpudlian - most friendly
Geordie - sexist
Welsh and Essex - thought to hinder a career
Pilots with RP accents are more reassuring
What did Howard Giles do
Students listened to lectures about capital punishment from different accents
Somerset, welsh, brummie, rp
RP was found to be the most impressive
Students were persuaded by the regional accents
How did RP spread
Spread in 1840s due to railway networks
Spread through boarding schools
What did dialectologist A J Ellis Believe
RP is the educated pronunciation of the metroplolis
What did wells find
Uppercrust, mainstream, adoptive
What did gimson find
Conservative, general, advanced
What percent of the population speaks RP
2%
What is estruary English
A mix between cockney and RP spoken to avoid stigma of either accent
What is MLE
Multi cultural London English
What did fox find about MLE
MLE is identified with adolescents and is spread by media and music
Who and where is MLE spoken
Younger generation in east London
What are the main influences of MLE
Popular culture e.g. Rap music
Post war immigration from developing countries
What are features of MLE
G dropping
Th fronting
Use of man in place of first person singular I
New vocabulary constantly coined
