Phonological variation (accent)

Question 1

Received Pronunciation (RP)

Answer 1

an accent that is often seen as evidence of a good education and is associated with authority, status and power. Only 2% of the population speak this.

Question 2

Bradford phoneme variations

Answer 2

• In words such as ‘city’ the final sound is pronounced /I/

- words such as ‘make’ and ‘take’ are pronounced /mek/ and /tek/

Question 3

London and the South East

Answer 3

• ‘dance and bath’, the vowel sound is /a:/

- ‘thin’ becomes /fin/

Question 4

Liverpool

Answer 4

-there is no contrast between pairs of words like ‘fair’ and ‘fir’

Question 5

Estuary English (1980s)

Answer 5

they way in which London accents were spreading to regions adjoining the Thames Estuary. More recently, it describes the accent adopted by people as a conscious move away from RP

Question 6

Dialect

Answer 6

a variety of language used by a particular group of people, which has distinctive features of vocabulary and grammar

Question 7

Accent

Answer 7

a set of pronunciation features which help to indicate a person’s geographical origin and/or their social class