Accents + dialects

Question 1

Accent features

Answer 1

• Th-fronting e.g. fink (think), muvva (mother)
• Consonant + ‘y’ + ‘oo’ sequence e.g. ‘nyews’ vs ‘nooz’ (news)
• Yod coalescence e.g. ‘chewsday’ vs ‘tyewsday’ (Tuesday)
• Distribution of ‘a’ e.g. ‘bath’ vs ‘barth’
• Glottal stop e.g. bu’er (butter)
  -Distribution of ‘oo’ e.g. ‘huk’ vs ‘hook’
  -L-vocalisation e.g. baw (ball)
  -Clear /l/ vs. dark /l/ e.g. ‘ladder’ vs ‘llladder’
  -H-dropping e.g. ‘ere (here)
• Rhotic /r/ e.g. carrr (car) Th-stopping e.g. ting (thing), dem (them)
• Alveolar nasal e.g. everythin (everything)
• Distribution of ‘u’ e.g. ‘strut/put’ pronounced the same vs. differently