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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... Phonetic similarity 1.2.4 Non - contrastive distribution 1.2.5 Affricates and diphthongs 1.2.6 The phonological word 1.2.7 Multiple complementation and neutralization 1.2.8 Further difficulties with taxonomic phonemics 1.2.9 ...
... Phonetic similarity 1.2.4 Non - contrastive distribution 1.2.5 Affricates and diphthongs 1.2.6 The phonological word 1.2.7 Multiple complementation and neutralization 1.2.8 Further difficulties with taxonomic phonemics 1.2.9 ...
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... phonetic symbols 6 North America 420 421 424 425 427 428 431 432 434 436 436 438 440 445 447 447 448 449 451 453 462 XV xvii 467 6.1 GenAm revisited 467 6.1.1 Introduction 467 6.1.2 The THOUGHT - LOT Merger 473 6.1.3 Further issues ...
... phonetic symbols 6 North America 420 421 424 425 427 428 431 432 434 436 436 438 440 445 447 447 448 449 451 453 462 XV xvii 467 6.1 GenAm revisited 467 6.1.1 Introduction 467 6.1.2 The THOUGHT - LOT Merger 473 6.1.3 Further issues ...
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... Phonetic characteristics 556 7 The West Indies 560 7.1 General characteristics of Caribbean English 560 7.1.1 Introduction 560 7.1.2 Creole 562 7.1.3 TH Stopping 7.1.4 Cluster reduction 565 7.1.5 Other consonants 566 7.1.6 Vowels and ...
... Phonetic characteristics 556 7 The West Indies 560 7.1 General characteristics of Caribbean English 560 7.1.1 Introduction 560 7.1.2 Creole 562 7.1.3 TH Stopping 7.1.4 Cluster reduction 565 7.1.5 Other consonants 566 7.1.6 Vowels and ...
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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