Kerswill's Study

Question 1

What did Kerswill study?

Answer 1

The spread of features associated with Cockney and/or Estuary English

Question 2

What features did Kerswill look for? Name 3

Answer 2

Multiple negation, th-fronting, t-glottalization

Question 3

What did Kerswill use to show boundaries of linguistic features?

Answer 3

Isoglosses

Question 4

What are Isoglosses?

Answer 4

Lines drawn on a map to show the limits of linguistic features

Question 5

What 3 cities did Kerswill research in?

Answer 5

Milton Keynes, Reading, Hull

Question 6

Who did Kerswill test his linguistic feature spread on?

Answer 6

4, 8, 12 year olds and their mothers usually

Question 7

How did Kerswill test with the children and the parents?

Answer 7

Gave the children spot the difference games, directly interviewed the parents

Question 8

Why were Milton Keynes and Reading chosen?

Answer 8

They had lots of social and geographical mobility in them, which would affect Dialect and accents and influence of social class on accents possibly

Question 9

Why was Hull chosen?

Answer 9

Even though it was not as prosperous, it was chosen to observe the accent and linguistic features change for a geographically isolated city

Question 10

What social class were most people from Hull in? What generation were the children?

Answer 10

Most were working class, children were 3rd generation locals

Question 11

What was found in Milton Keynes with newcomers?

Answer 11

Newcomers spoke a variety of regional accents

Question 12

What was found in Milton Keynes with children?

Answer 12

4 year olds spoke like their parents. Children aged 8 to 12 spoke Estuary English dialect with a Milton Keynes accent

Question 13

What was found in Reading with the speed of accent change? Why?

Answer 13

Accent change was slow as accents were still influenced by their parents

Question 14

What was the only change observed in Reading residents?

Answer 14

Older residents had a more rhotic accent

Question 15

What did younger speakers in Reading use?

Answer 15

t-glottalization

Question 16

What was found in Hull with younger residents?

Answer 16

Young speakers kept the accent of their older relatives

Question 17

What is an example of young people in Hull keeping their older relatives accents?

Answer 17

‘u’ phoneme in ‘but’ was said like how southern people say ‘put’

Question 18

What did young speakers use in Hull that was separate to their older relatives?

Answer 18

Th-fronting

Question 19

What was Kerswills conclusion in Milton Keynes and Reading for children?

Answer 19

As children got older, they moved to the less vocalised parts of speech

Question 20

What was Kerswills conclusion in Hull for children?

Answer 20

As there was not good education in Hull, children felt like they could not move up a social class felt they had no need to make their accents more formal

Question 21

Why was there some presence of accent change in Hull for young people?

Answer 21

th-fronting and glottalization was more present due to media influence and peer influence