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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... Monophthongs and centring diphthongs 305 4.2.4 The Diphthong Shift 306 4.2.5 The THOUGHT Split 310 4.2.6 The GOAT Split 312 4.2.7 Vowel plus / 1 / 313 4.2.8 Further remarks on vowels 317 4.2.9 The consonant system ; [ h ] 321 4.2.10 ...
... Monophthongs and centring diphthongs 305 4.2.4 The Diphthong Shift 306 4.2.5 The THOUGHT Split 310 4.2.6 The GOAT Split 312 4.2.7 Vowel plus / 1 / 313 4.2.8 Further remarks on vowels 317 4.2.9 The consonant system ; [ h ] 321 4.2.10 ...
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... Monophthongs 399 5.2.4 Diphthongs 405 5.2.5 Vowels before / r / 407 5.2.6 Consonants 408 5.2.7 The Highlands and Islands 412 5.2.8 Prosodic features 414 5.2.9 Sociolinguistic studies 415 5.3 Ireland 417 5.3.1 Introduction 417 5.3.2 The ...
... Monophthongs 399 5.2.4 Diphthongs 405 5.2.5 Vowels before / r / 407 5.2.6 Consonants 408 5.2.7 The Highlands and Islands 412 5.2.8 Prosodic features 414 5.2.9 Sociolinguistic studies 415 5.3 Ireland 417 5.3.1 Introduction 417 5.3.2 The ...
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... Monophthongs 598 8.1.5 Centring diphthongs 599 8.1.6 Weak vowels 601 8.1.7 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 ...
... Monophthongs 598 8.1.5 Centring diphthongs 599 8.1.6 Weak vowels 601 8.1.7 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 ...
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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