Accent

Question 1

How do Northerners pronounce the vowel in “bath” and “grass”

Answer 1

/æ/

Question 2

How do Southerners pronounce the vowel in “bath” and “grass”?

Answer 2

/a:/

Question 3

How do Northerners pronounce the vowel in “put” and “cup”?

Answer 3

/ʊ/

Question 4

How do Southerners pronounce the vowel in “put” and “cup”?

Answer 4

/ʌ/

Question 5

Is R.P. and h-pronouncing accent?

Answer 5

Yes

Question 6

Do the majority of English accents h-pronounce?

Answer 6

No

Question 7

How does R.P. pronounce the consonant in the middle of “water”?

Answer 7

/t/

Question 8

What type of sound is /t/?

Answer 8

alveolar plosive

Question 9

How do many English accents pronounce the consonant in the middle of “water”?

Answer 9

/?/

Question 10

What type of sound is /?/?

Answer 10

Glottal stop

Question 11

In the majority of English accents, how is the final sound in “car” pronounce?

Answer 11

/a:/

Question 12

In much of the south west of England how do they pronounce the final sound in “car”?

Answer 12

/r/

Question 13

How does R.P. pronounce the final sound in “running”?

Answer 13

/ŋ/

Question 14

What type of sound is /ŋ/?

Answer 14

Velar Nasal

Question 15

How do a large proportion of English speakers pronounce the final sound in “running”?

Answer 15

/n/

Question 16

What type of sound is /n/?

Answer 16

Alveolar Nasal

Question 17

Which accent uses features of both R.P. and Cockney?

Answer 17

Estuary English

Question 18

Where did Estuary English originate from?

Answer 18

The Thames Estuary

Question 19

How does Estuary English pronounce the middle consonant in “Water” and “bottle”?

Answer 19

As a glottal stop (/?/)

Question 20

In words such as “wholemeal” or “football”, how do estuary speakers pronounce the L?

Answer 20

As a velarised /ɫ/ (I think this means the L is like a weird mix between and L and a W, but I could be wrong)

Question 21

Who did the Department Store Study?

Answer 21

William Labov

Question 22

What did Labov look at the link between in his Department Store Study?

Answer 22

Accent and Prestige

Question 23

Who did Labov study in his Department Store Study?

Answer 23

New York Shop assistants

Question 24

What sound did Labov study in his Department Store Study?

Answer 24

The non-prevocalic /r/

Question 25

What phrase did Labov use in his Department Store Study?

Answer 25

"fourth floor"

Question 26

In New York, what was the prestige form of the pronunciation of "fourth floor" according to Labov?

Answer 26

Using the non-prevocalic /r/

Question 27

In New York, what was the Stigmatised form of the pronunciation of "Fourth Floor" according to Labov?

Answer 27

Using /a:/ instead of the non-prevocalic /r/

Question 28

What three shops did Labov study in his Department Store Study?

Answer 28

Saks, Macey's and Klein's

Question 29

What was the Upper Class store in Labov's Department Store Study?

Answer 29

Saks

Question 30

What was the middle class store in Labov's Department Store Study?

Answer 30

Macey's

Question 31

What was the working class store in Labov's Department Store Study?

Answer 31

Klein's

Question 32

What did Labov call the first time the assistant pronounced "fourth floor"?

Answer 32

Spontaneous Speech

Question 33

What did Labov call the repeated time the assistant pronounced "fourth floor"?

Answer 33

Careful Speech

Question 34

According to Labov, which store used /r/ the most?

Answer 34

Saks

Question 35

According to Labov, which store used /r/ the least?

Answer 35

Klein

Question 36

According to Labov, which store changed their pronunciation of /a:/ to /r/ the most?

Answer 36

Macey's

Question 37

What did Labov find accent was affected by in his Department Store Study?

Answer 37

Class and Care

Question 38

According to Labov, which gender corrects from /a:/ to /r/ the most?

Answer 38

Women

Question 39

Who did the Martha's Vineyard Study?

Answer 39

William Labov

Question 40

What were the three groups of people identified in Labov's Martha's Vineyard Study?

Answer 40

1. The Chilmark fishermen 2. The Islanders 3. The Summer People

Question 41

According to Labov, who were the Chilmark Fishermen?

Answer 41

The indigenous population of the island who used the indigenous accent

Question 42

According to Labov, who were the Islanders?

Answer 42

The Wealthy residents of the island who had moved their

Question 43

According to Labov, who were the Summer People?

Answer 43

Visitors to the Island

Question 44

How did the Islanders speech change according to Labov?

Answer 44

Went from High prestige to Low Prestige

Question 45

In the Islanders speech, how did the vowel sound change in words like "out" and "house"?

Answer 45

Changed from /aʊ/ to /əʊ/ (like in "boat")

Question 46

In the Islanders speech, how did the vowel sound change in words like "White" and "Night"?

Answer 46

Changed from /aɪ/ to /əl/ (I have no idea what this sounds like, I tried to find it but the only thing I could find was the end sound of a southerner pronouncing "People")

Question 47

Why did Labov suggest the the Islanders accent more?

Answer 47

They thought of the fishermen as "true Islanders" and wanted to sound more like them and less like the summer people

Question 48

According to Labov's Martha's Vineyard Study, why do we use accents?

Answer 48

To mark group membership and to distance ourselves from other groups

Question 49

Who did the Belfast Study?

Answer 49

Milroy and Milroy

Question 50

What did Milroy and Milroy give to individuals in their Belfast Study?

Answer 50

A Network Strength Score

Question 51

What did Milroy and Milroy look at in their Belfast Study?

Answer 51

The "th" sound in "mother" and the vowel sound in "hat"

Question 52

In the Belfast Study, how did the middle sound in "mother" change?

Answer 52

From /ð/ to /d/

Question 53

In the Belfast Study, how did the vowel sound in "hat" change?

Answer 53

From /æ/ to /ɔ:/

Question 54

In The Belfast Study, what did High Network Strength Scores correlate with a greater use of?

Answer 54

non-standard forms

Question 55

What do dense networks function as?

Answer 55

Norm-enforcement mechanisms

Question 56

In The Belfast Study, what did men's speech usually contain more of?

Answer 56

Non-standard forms

Question 57

In the Belfast Study, why did men's speech contain more non-standard forms than women's?

Answer 57

They belonged to denser social networks than women

Question 58

In The Belfast Study, where did more women than expected use the non-standard form of /ɔ:/ in "hat"

Answer 58

The Hammer and Clonard

Question 59

Why did more women than expected use non-standard forms in The Hammer and Clonard?

Answer 59

They worked together and belonged to a dense and multiplex network