Accent And Dialect

Question 1

What is dialect levelling?

Answer 1

The process of dialects becoming more similar

Question 2

What causes dialect levelling?

Answer 2

Movement of people, growth of universal education and the idea that there is a standard way of speaking

Question 3

where was the dialect island study and who created it?

Answer 3

Liverpool, Kevin Watson

Question 4

What did the dialect Island study compare?

Answer 4

1970’s recordings of youth speech and modern day speech patterns

Question 5

What were the findings of the dialect island study?

Answer 5

That liverpool was resisting dialect levelling and accent actually getting broader due to being proud of identity

Question 6

What is style shifting?

Answer 6

When people change the way they speak depending on the audience

Question 7

Who conducted the lecturer study?

Answer 7

Giles and Powesland

Question 8

What was investigated in the lecturer study?

Answer 8

2 groups of 17 year old students were given a presentation In both a brummie and RP accent and asked who was more intelligent

Question 9

What were the results of the lecturer study?

Answer 9

RP was found to be of a higher intelligence and associated with a strong academic background , more was also wrote about RP

Question 10

What are two other names for MLE?

Answer 10

MUBE (multicultural urban British English) and MEYD (multi ethnic youth dialect)

Question 11

What are three accent features of MLE?

Answer 11

Th-stopping
Non standard pronoun ‘man’
Reversal of h-dropping

Question 12

What are three examples of MLE dialect?

Answer 12

Blud, nang and ends

Question 13

What is MLE sometimes termed?

Answer 13

Jafaican

Question 14

What demographic is MLE associated with?

Answer 14

Young lower class in London

Question 15

What demographic is scouse associated with?

Answer 15

Low class Chavy criminal

Question 16

What demographic is brummie associated with?

Answer 16

Dull, boring

Question 17

What demographic is Geordie associated with?

Answer 17

Rough aggressive and uneducated

Question 18

What demographic is Northern Irish associated with?

Answer 18

Drunk, thick and religious

Question 19

What demographic is Scottish associated with?

Answer 19

Drunk, thick and friendly

Question 20

What demographic is Welsh associated with?

Answer 20

Less intelligent and friendly

Question 21

What accent features are associated with brummie?

Answer 21

Monotone, I = Oy

Question 22

What is an example of Brummie vocab?

Answer 22

Gulley, bab

Question 23

What accent features are associated with geordie?

Answer 23

G-drop, glottal stop, B-road vowel sounds

Question 24

What are examples of geordie vocab?

Answer 24

Aye, divy

Question 25

What are accent features of northern Irish?

Answer 25

Tighter vowel sounds

Question 26

What are examples of northern Irish vocab?

Answer 26

Aye, wee, ejit

Question 27

What are accent features of Scottish ?

Answer 27

Rolled R, shortened vowel sounds

Question 28

What are examples of Scottish vocab?

Answer 28

Wee, aye, cannae

Question 29

What are accent features of Welsh?

Answer 29

Long vowel sounds, singsong, highpitched

Question 30

What is an example of Welsh vocab?

Answer 30

Lush

Question 31

Is RP an accent or a dialect?

Answer 31

Accent

Question 32

When did RP first emerge?

Answer 32

The 19th century in the upper classes of London and boarding schools

Question 33

What was the intention of RP?

Answer 33

That with regional and social markers concealed people could aspire to the top

Question 34

Why did RP rapidly rise in the 1920’s?

Answer 34

BBC adopted the RP accent

Question 35

What percentage of the population now speak RP?

Answer 35

2%

Question 36

What are two features of RP?

Answer 36

Tapped R’s, extended vowel sounds

Question 37

Who conducted the bad language study and when?

Answer 37

Trudgill, 1970

Question 38

Which accent did the bad language study best and worst?

Answer 38

RP best, city accents such as Brummie last

Question 39

What is a disadvantage of Trudgills bad language study?

Answer 39

It was 50 years ago and so may be outdated