Accent Theory Flashcards
Paper 2 Section A Revision
Explain what accent is
Accent is the sounds that you make when you are speaking.
What does ‘IPA’ stand for?
International Phonetic Alphabet
There is a divide in England between the north and the _ _ _ _ _
South
The northern pronunciation of ‘bath’ is?
baeth
What is the southern pronunciation of bath?
ba:th
What is the southern pronunciation of ‘put’
p^t
What is the term for when an accent doesn’t include /h/ at the start of words such as ‘hospital’?
‘h-dropping’
What is the symbol for a glottal stop?
/?/
The glottal stop sound has been spreading rapidly throughout many English accents over the last few decades in process known as
‘t-glottalisation.’
How is the the final sound in ‘car’ pronounced in London, Leeds, Manchester and Newcastle?
/a:/
In much of South West England and a small pocket in North West Lancashire, the final vowel sound in concrete noun ‘car’ is it pronounced as
/r/
In much of South West England and a small pocket in North West Lancashire, the final vowel sound in concrete noun ‘car’ is it pronounced as as /car/. What is this term known as?
‘post vocalic r’
Accents that contain the ‘non-prevocalic r’ or ‘post vocalic r’ are called?
rhotic accents
What did Labov look at in his Department Story Study?
The link between accent and overt prestige
Which sound did Labov investigate?
The pronunciation of the ‘non-pre-vocalic’ /r/
Whose accent did Labov investigate?
The speech of New York shop assistants.
The shop assistants had to repeat their answer of ‘fourth floor’ to see if their pronunciation had changed. What does this tell us about their speech?
Their speech had become careful rather than spontaneous.
What are the names of the stores that Labov carried out his experiment in?
Saks (upper class). Macy (middle class) Kleins (lower class)
Which store used the /r/ sound the most?
Saks, the upper class store.
Which store used the /r/ sound the least?
Klein’s, the lower class store.
Which shop showed the greatest change from the low prestige form to the high prestige when asked to repeat themselves.
Macy’s
The findings from Labov’s study suggests that accent is dependent on class as well as _ _ _ _ _ _
region
The findings from Labov’s study suggests that accent is dependent on _ _ _ _ _ _ as well as region
gender
The findings from Labov’s study suggests that people choose to change their accent in order to appear to be of a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ class
Higher
The findings from Labov’s study suggests that people change their accent when they’re being _ _ _ _ _ _ _ about their speech.
careful
In Martha’s Vineyard’s Study, what is the name of the group of people who live on the island with their families and who work in the island’s traditional fishing industry?
The Chilmark Fishermen