Accents and Dialects Estuary English and MLE Flashcards

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what is Estuary English?

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combination of london regional dialect and RP

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Fetaures of Estuary English

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glottal stop replaces /t/- le’er
/l/ pronounced w
negating adverb ‘never’
tag questions ‘didn’t i?’

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what is the social significance of Estuary English?

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some adopt accents to blend in and appear more working class (mockney)
part of young middle class moving away from RP
pejorative connotations ‘awful Estuary English’

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what is MLE?

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based of cockney dialect with immigration

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Fetaures of MLE

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short trajectories for vowel sound ‘face’
goose vowels /u/ ‘food’
gragmatic markers ‘you get me’

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what did Gary Ives Bradford research study?

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new dialect used by young speakers in bradford

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what did Ives find?

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teenage boys:
code switched
used 1st person plural possessive pronoun
generational shift
distinguished themselves as ‘freshies’

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what did Ives study show?

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how language is used to create a well defined social identity

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