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Diversity - Accent And Dialect Flashcards

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What is an accent?

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A distinctive way of pronouncing a language, particularly associated with a particular country, social class or area

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What is a dialect?

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The whole way language is used, including accent, vocabulary etc

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What caused the formation of dialect?

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Communities constantly being together causing the creation of specific ways of speaking

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What did Howard Giles find about the way RP was perceived?

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He found that received pronunciation was rated as highly intelligent and powerful, but cold

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What were Trudgil’s ing/in findings an example of?

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Code-switching

Changing styles to fit context

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What did Trudgil find regarding corretness linked gender?

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Women tend to fall closer to hypercorrectness ( rarely dropping g)

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What is an example of convergence in modern-day Britain?

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People copying the accent and dialect used in music such as grime because they see it as cool

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What did Howard Gilies write about with accommodation theory ?

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He said that two things can happen with people’s dialects during a conversation

Convergence: trying to fit In with the other person’s way of speaking

Divergence: trying to found different to the other person’s way of speaking

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9
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What percentage of employers discriminate on accent?

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80%

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What does the discrimination towards accent in the work place demonstrate?

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That there is clear prejudice in that area

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How are rural accents seen according to Giles study?

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They are seen as friendly

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12
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What are the two types of prestige of accents?

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Overt and Covert

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How are Urban accents seen by non-speakers?

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They are seen as Untrustworthy

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How are Urban accents rated by speakers?

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They are rated very highly

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Which accent has overt prestige?

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Received pronunciation

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Which accent has covert prestige?

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Our accent which we are speakers of

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What accent are working-class people more likely to use?

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Their regional accent

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18
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What is upwards convergence?

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When someone ‘improves’ their accent
(Gets closer to RP)

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What is downward convergence?

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When someone moves away from RP

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What did Trudgill claim is causing the decline in traditional dialects?

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Dialect leveling is caused by the increased movement of people in the UK

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How did Trudgil view all the dialects?

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He viewed them ALL as equal

22
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What did Labov find in his study into the rhotic ‘R’ at US shops?

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He found that the more posh a shop was , the MORE pronunced the rhotic ‘r’ is

23
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How is the rhotic ‘r’ viewed by RP speakers?

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Its seen as improper or unintelligent

24
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What accent did Howard Giles find was viewed as the most impressive using a verbal guise technique?

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RP

25
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What accent did Howard Giles find was viewed as the most persausive using a verbal guise technique?

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Southern Welsh

26
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What type of accent had the lowest Status according to Giles (1970)?

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Regional urban accents

27
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What was Giles’s opinion on which accent is the best?

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As a descriptivist, Giles claimed that no accent is superior to the other

28
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What is Estuary English?

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A middle ground between cockeny and RP

29
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In their study, ‘Bad accents’ what did Trudgil and Anderson claim were the two options regional accent speakers had in response to accent discrimination?

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1) adopt and RP accent
2) oppose the label by knuckling down

30
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What did Trugil and Anderson claimed caused accent prejudice?

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We associate accents based off of social stereotypes (e.g urban accents with dirty cities) therefore we act accordingly

31
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How did Trugil and Anderson support their claim that accent prejudice was based off of social stereotypes?

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They asked North American people (who didnt know the stereotypes) and asked them to rate accents

1st was RP

2nd was Cockney - significant as UK surveys have it last

32
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What does Labov’s research into the rhotic ‘r’ being a priestige feature in US stores suggest about opinions towards accent and dialect?

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It suggests that it is completely based off of social sterotypes

33
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Who studied social networks effect on language use?

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Millroy (1980)

34
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What did Millroy find about dense multiplex networks use of language?

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She found that DMN’s were far more likely to use vernacular (non-standard dialect and regional accents)

35
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What are three mainstream dialects?

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American
English
Australian

36
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What are three traditional dialects?

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Manciunan
Somerset
Liverpudlian

37
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What is a Shibboleth?

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A linguistic marker that shows we are part of group

38
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What is L vocalisation?

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The lateral sound is pronounced more like a W

(Feel –> Felw) (felt —> fewt)

39
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What is price rounding?

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When the I sound comes out as ‘oi’

(E.g Loight)

40
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What are some features of the cockney accent?

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Glottal stops
L vocalisation
Omission of the ‘ly’ bound morpheme

41
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What did Rosewarne claim about the spread of Estuary English?

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They claim that Estuary had been spreading since the 50’s

42
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How did Labov’ 2nd study into the rhotic ‘r’ suggest that it was seen as a prestige figure in the US?

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It showed that the more concentrated a speaker was , the more the rhotic ‘r’ was used, meaning its a conscious decision

43
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What is the rhotic ‘r’?

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It is pronouncing the ‘r’ sound when it would usually be silent

(E.g Cah—> Car)

44
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What Is h-dropping?

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It is when the h is ignored when pronouncing a word (e.g house—> ouse

45
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What is yod dropping?

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Dropping the ‘Y’ infront of the vowel

(E.g –> myusic —-> musik)

46
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What is the trap/bath split?

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The divide where people use a short a or an elongated

North = ae (elongated ‘a’)
Southern English = a (short ‘a’)

47
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What is Th fronting?

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The dipthong ‘Th’ is replaced with f in
(E.g think —> fink)

‘Th’ becomes a ‘v’ in some words such as ‘bruver’ or ‘bover’

48
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What is a dipthong?

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A gliding monosyllabic speech sound

(E.g ‘Th’)

49
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What are some features of the Somerset dialect?

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Use of the Rhotic ‘r’
Use of male pronoun for objects
Th fronting

50
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What percentage of H dropping oppertunties are used the lower working class ? (Pety)

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93%

51
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What is Standard English?

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The ‘correct’ use of the English Language, the way non-speaking people are taught and the ‘standard’ for use (dialect)

52
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What is RP?

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RP , is the ‘correct’ pronunciation of the English Language, it is also know as the queens English (Accent)

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