Accents of English: Volume 1Cambridge University Press, 1982 M04 8 - 673 pages Accents of English is about the way English is pronounced by different people in diffeent places. Volume I provides a synthesizing introduction, which shows how accents vary not only geographically, but also with social class, formality, sex and age; and in volumes 2 and 3 the author examines in greater depth the various accents used by people who speak English as their mother tongue: the accents of the regions of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland (volume 2), and of the USA, Canada, and West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Black Africa and the Far East (volume 3). Each volume can be read independently, and together they form a major scholarly survey of considerable originality, which not only includes descriptions of hitherto neglected accents, but also examines the implications for phonological theory. |
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... mergers 1.4.4 Regularization 1.4.5 Why innovations spread 1.4.6 The influence of literacy External influences 1.4.7 1.4.8 Altering one's accent 75 76 78 80 81 86 89 91 93 93 97 99 ΙΟΙ 103 106 IIO III 2.1.I 2 Sets and systems 2.1 The ...
... mergers 1.4.4 Regularization 1.4.5 Why innovations spread 1.4.6 The influence of literacy External influences 1.4.7 1.4.8 Altering one's accent 75 76 78 80 81 86 89 91 93 93 97 99 ΙΟΙ 103 106 IIO III 2.1.I 2 Sets and systems 2.1 The ...
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... Mergers 3.1.6 The FLEECE Merger 3.1.7 The FOOT - STRUT Split 3.1.8 The NURSE Merger 3.1.9 Pre - Fricative Lengthening 3.1.10 Yod Dropping 3.1.11 PRICE and CHOICE 3.1.12 Long Mid Diphthonging 3.1.13 The Great Divide 3.2 British prestige ...
... Mergers 3.1.6 The FLEECE Merger 3.1.7 The FOOT - STRUT Split 3.1.8 The NURSE Merger 3.1.9 Pre - Fricative Lengthening 3.1.10 Yod Dropping 3.1.11 PRICE and CHOICE 3.1.12 Long Mid Diphthonging 3.1.13 The Great Divide 3.2 British prestige ...
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... Merger 473 6.1.3 Further issues relating to THOUGHT and LOT 475 6.1.4 BATH Raising 477 6.1.5 Vowels before / r / 479 6.1.6 Other vowels 485 6.1.7 Consonants 488 6.2 Canada 490 6.2.1 Introduction 490 6.2.2 The vowel system 492 6.2.3 The ...
... Merger 473 6.1.3 Further issues relating to THOUGHT and LOT 475 6.1.4 BATH Raising 477 6.1.5 Vowels before / r / 479 6.1.6 Other vowels 485 6.1.7 Consonants 488 6.2 Canada 490 6.2.1 Introduction 490 6.2.2 The vowel system 492 6.2.3 The ...
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accents of England accents of English affricates allophone alveolar American southern apply BATH words British characteristic citation form Cockney comprising those words consonant contrast CURE defined as comprising dialect diphthong distinct DRESS example FLEECE fricative GenAm glottal GOAT GOOSE H Dropping homophones hypercorrections identical Labov language lexical incidence linguistic London merged Merger Middle English minimal pairs monophthong nasal non-rhotic accents north of England NURSE occur opposition PALM part-system phonetic phonetic environment phonological phonotactic phonotactic distribution plosive Pre-R prevocalic pronounced representation rhotic accents rhyme RP and GenAm rule segment sequence social class sound changes speakers speech spelling pronunciation standard accents standard lexical set stressed vowel STRUT traditional name traditional-dialect TRAP Trudgill typical underlying underlying representation unrounded unstressed usually variable variants variety velar vocoid voiceless Vowel Shift vowel system words belonging words whose citation working-class Yod Dropping