Accent And Dialect Flashcards

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What is a glottal stop?

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Omission of the ‘t’ in the middle of a word

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What is a labiodental feature?

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The turning of a th into a V i.e brother to bruver

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What is code switching?

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  • The ability of multilingual people to switch between different accents
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What is a shibboleth?

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A language item used as a marker or test in group membership

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What is a diphthong?

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Two letters used to create a sound

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What is prosodics?

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The soundtrack of the words e.g,. Intonation,the rhythm or pitch

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What is linguistic accommodation?

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When speakers accent and dialect becomes more like people they are with

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What is a non prestige variant?

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The opposite of received pronunciation

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What is an idiomatic phrase?

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  • A phrase that has an accepted meaning
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What is paralanguage?

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  • The other vocal effects and non verbal behaviour- similar to prosodics
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What is elision?

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Omission of sounds

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What is a hierarchical geographical features?

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The process by which dialectal features travel down from an urban centre to a small town

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What were the two studies Labov conducted and what do they prove?

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  • New York stores study- ‘rhotic r in words such as floor’- USed to distinguish social class as higher classes used the rhotic ‘r’ more
  • Martha’s Vineyard- That residents will adapt their language in order to distinguish themselves from holiday makers to try and ascertain covert prestige
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What did Trudgill study and what did it show?

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  • Norwich study
  • That the higher the social class the more standard language forms and the more closer to prestige
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What did Petyt’s study show?

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Bradford study- H dropping
- People from a lower social class dropped almost all H’s

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What is the Matched guise theory?

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People will rate speakers based on their accent quality and this may have a negative impact on a person. Can be influenced by elocution lessons.

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What did Dixon,Mahoney and Cocks suggest about people accents?

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Peoples accents have an effect on peoples impressions and that standard accents will be rated more positively (More trustworthy)

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What is dialect levelling?

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Where distinct dialects are disappearing and becoming more of a standardised dialect =

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What did Fox state about MLE?

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Second and third immigrants are the most likely to use MLE followed by white boys and lastly white girls