accents and dialects

Question 1

phonological features of received pronunciation

Answer 1

1. H retention
2. non rhoticity
3. conservative vowels
4. yod coalescence

Question 2

received pronunciation

Answer 2

is an artificial construct - it doesn’t offer any clues about background (regionless)

Question 3

traditional dialects

Answer 3

use ‘old’ and rural lexemes and grammatical constructions

Question 4

mainstream dialects

Answer 4

are the more common lexical and grammatical constructions used by a majority in an area

Question 5

MLE

Answer 5

multicultural London English influenced through grime

Question 6

CRS

Answer 6

Cockney rhyming slang is a dialectal variation found in London that originated from the criminal underworld in 1800s as a way of communicating so police wouldn’t understand