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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... consonant system 2.3.6 A typology for accents of English 3 Developments and processes 3.1 Residualisms 3.1.1 The Great Vowel Shift 3.1.2 NG Coalescence 3.1.3 The velar fricative 3.1.4 THOUGHT Monophthonging 3.1.5 The Long Mid Mergers ...
... consonant system 2.3.6 A typology for accents of English 3 Developments and processes 3.1 Residualisms 3.1.1 The Great Vowel Shift 3.1.2 NG Coalescence 3.1.3 The velar fricative 3.1.4 THOUGHT Monophthonging 3.1.5 The Long Mid Mergers ...
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... consonant / r / 4.4.9 Other consonants 367 370 4.4.10 Merseyside 4.4.11 Tyneside 5 The Celtic countries 371 374 377 5.1.1 5.1 Wales Introduction 5.1.2 Rhoticity 5.1.3 A typical vowel system 5.1.4 Five possible extra contrasts 377 377 ...
... consonant / r / 4.4.9 Other consonants 367 370 4.4.10 Merseyside 4.4.11 Tyneside 5 The Celtic countries 371 374 377 5.1.1 5.1 Wales Introduction 5.1.2 Rhoticity 5.1.3 A typical vowel system 5.1.4 Five possible extra contrasts 377 377 ...
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... Consonants 488 6.2 Canada 490 6.2.1 Introduction 490 6.2.2 The vowel system 492 6.2.3 The open back vowel ( s ) 493 6.2.4 PRICE , MOUTH Raising 494 6.2.5 Consonants 495 6.2.6 Questions of incidence 496 6.2.7 Newfoundland : general ...
... Consonants 488 6.2 Canada 490 6.2.1 Introduction 490 6.2.2 The vowel system 492 6.2.3 The open back vowel ( s ) 493 6.2.4 PRICE , MOUTH Raising 494 6.2.5 Consonants 495 6.2.6 Questions of incidence 496 6.2.7 Newfoundland : general ...
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... consonants 6.4 New England 517 518 6.4.1 Introduction 518 6.5.1 6.4.2 Non - rhoticity 6.4.3 The open front vowel area 6.4.4 The open back vowel area 6.4.5 The New England ' short o ' 6.4.6 PRICE and MOUTH 6.5 The south Introduction 6.5 ...
... consonants 6.4 New England 517 518 6.4.1 Introduction 518 6.5.1 6.4.2 Non - rhoticity 6.4.3 The open front vowel area 6.4.4 The open back vowel area 6.4.5 The New England ' short o ' 6.4.6 PRICE and MOUTH 6.5 The south Introduction 6.5 ...
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... Consonants 603 8.1.8 Prosodic characteristics 604 8.2 New Zealand 605 8.2.1 Introduction 605 8.2.2 Central KIT 606 8.2.3 The remainder of the vowel system 607 8.2.4 The lateral and its influence 609 8.2.5 Other consonants 610 8.3 South ...
... Consonants 603 8.1.8 Prosodic characteristics 604 8.2 New Zealand 605 8.2.1 Introduction 605 8.2.2 Central KIT 606 8.2.3 The remainder of the vowel system 607 8.2.4 The lateral and its influence 609 8.2.5 Other consonants 610 8.3 South ...
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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