Accent & Dialect Flashcards
The study of accents and dialects
Snell
“Working class children use their strong dialects to be comedic or derisive in nature”
Stuart Smith
“Maintaining Scottish features for middle class speakers equals weaker social networks”
Giles
“Regional dialects score high regarding friendliness and sincerity traits”
Workman
“Birmingham accents are percieved as less intelligent since they link to crime”
Wood
“Status and solidarity values concerns with thinking about people in relation to yourself”
Milroy & Milroy
“High network strength scores are correlated with non standard forms”
Petyt
“Non standard English and a person’s social class are linked”
Katz & Postal
“Negative ‘wh’ questions in dialect are declarative counterparts”
Fitzpatrick
“Spoken colloquial language is not linked to written modes”
Macafee & O’Baoill
“Scottish English functions are viewed in a temporal or exclamatory sense”
Lass
“English regional phonology and lexis are more salient than regional morphosyntax”
Sellars
“Speech codes are like dress codes as they have been relaxed”
Define “Dialect Levelling”
Dialects are not distinct due to media articles and travel
Define “Bidialectism”
Possessing two dialect forms
Define “Koineisation”
Creating new languages through mixing dialect forms
Define “Isoglosses”
Geographical boundary lines where different linguistic features meet
What is the evolution of swearing?
Unclear possibly Anglo Saxon or relating to blasphemous sexual connotations against God
Define “Non Rhotic”
Lack of extra accentuation on ‘r’ as vowel/consonant
Why do working class women speak with Standard English, more so than men?
They have more compassion and talk about their feelings a lot in conversation
List three British places that recieved pronunciation derived from in the 19th century
London, Oxford and Cambridge
Define “Estuary English”
Combination of recieved pronunciation and regional southern accents
Translate “Isoglosses” into Greek
Equal language
Define “Status Values”
Authority or ability of persuasion
Define “Solidarity Values”
Trustworthy points with characteristic value
Define “Cockney”
Nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London
