Accents of English: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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accents of England accents of English allophone alveolar American southern apply BATH words British centring diphthong century characteristic citation form Cockney comprising those words consonant contrast CURE defined as comprising deletion dialect diphthong distinct England example FLEECE fricative GenAm glottal Goat Goose H Dropping historical homophones hypercorrections identical Insertion language Lengthening lexical incidence linguistic London Long Mid merged Middle English minimal pairs monophthong nasal non-rhotic accents north of England NURSE Merger occur opposition PALM part-system phonetic phonetic environment phonological phonotactic plosive possible prevocalic pronounced realization rhotic accents rhyme RP and GenAm rule Scotland segment sequence Smoothing ſol sound changes speakers speech spelling pronunciation standard accents standard lexical set starting-point stressed vowel STRUT traditional-dialect TRAP Trudgill typical underlying underlying representations unrounded unstressed usually variable variants velar vocoid voice voiceless Vowel Shift vowel system words whose citation working-class Yod Dropping
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| Title | Accents of English: Volume 1 of Accents of English, John Christopher Wells Volume 1 of Accents of English: An introduction, John Christopher Wells |
| Authors | John C. Wells, John Corson Wells |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1982 |
| ISBN | 0521297192, 9780521297196 |
| Length | 673 pages |
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