Accents and Dialect Flashcards
What is Idiolect?
Individual speech patterns peculiar to a particular person.
What is the CAT theory?
Communication Accommodation Theory:
Howard Giles - People change their language use to show their feelings about the person they’re talking to.
What is Convergence?
When somebody changes their language use to move towards another’s group style.
What is Divergence?
When somebody changes their language use to move away from another’s style.
What is the RP accent?
It is the regionally neutral middle accent of England. It is known as the Queen’s English, BBC English and Oxford English.
What is an Accent?
It reveals their background and not what kind of person they are.
What is Post Vocalic /r/?
Where some people pronounce the /r/ after it occurs in the spelling of the word.
What is Rhotic?
Accents where the /r/ is sounded.
What are Glottal Stops?
A feature in many regional accents (An absence of a sound)
What is an Isogloss?
A Geographic boundary showing where dialectal usage occurs.
What is a lexical set?
A group of words which have the same vowel sound in a given variety of English.
What is a Monophthong?
A Single sound.
What is Th-Fronting?
The pronunciation of ‘Th’ as /f/ or /v/.
What is Standard English?
A Dialect!
[ Key Theory 1 ] What is Milroy’s (2002) theory?
Increased Geographical mobility has disrupted localised networks because people spread different types of accent everywhere.
