Accent And Dialect Flashcards
What was the Malcom petyt Bradford study ?
Non standard language and social class are linked
Asked ppl a question that require a response beginning with ‘h’
Checked whether the ‘h’ was dropped
The lower the class the lesson the ‘h’ was used
What was peter trudgill Norwich study ?
Developed petyts study but with a focus on the ‘ng’
Men are less standard than women
Men think they are more standard than they are women think they’re less standard than they are
The lower the class the greater the use on non standard English
Uk accent survey- the Aziz corporation
79% of businesses thought that a strong regional accent was a disadvantage
Scottish was the only successful regional accent 43% said they were successful
Liverpool scouse was the worst 15% believed them to be successful
9% hardworking and 8% trustworthy
Cockney was thought to be successful but not trustworthy
Geordie was thought to be warm and caring
Indian and Asian accents are hardworking and reliable
Labov Martha’s Vineyard
Study into how ppl adapt to accents and dialects overtime looked at an island with 6000 ppl but had over 40k visitors each summer
Residents adapted their speech to accommodate visitors and over many years the islanders adapted their speech to the majority and it become the norm
Younger generations spoke most like the visitors
Fisherman changed their vowel sounds to sound different to the visitors to seek solidarity/ covert prestige
Kerswill standard English
Increased social mobility in the second half of the twentieth century has more recently led to the downgrading of RP in favour of mildly regionally accented varieties such as Estuary English
SE doesn’t permit double negatives
Doesn’t distinguish between forms of the auxiliary do and its main verb
David rosewarne Estuary English
Estuary English is a variety of modified regional speech its a mixture of non regional and local south eastern English pronounication and inotation if one imagines a continuum with RP and popular London speech at either end Estuary English speakers are to be found grouped in the middle ground
Estuary has these features: glottal stops including some between vowel a general absence of h-dropping and use of standard grammar
Howard Giles language and region?
In 1970 briths teenagers judged the aesthetic communicative and status values of 13 accented speakers a prestige continuum emerged
Standard English
Certain foreign accents
Regional accents
Immigrant and urban
