Language and Region - Accent Flashcards
IPA examples?
? - Glottal stop
a: - father
f - fool/enough
What is regional accent?
Major divide between north and south.
Vowel in ‘bath’ and ‘grass’
Northern - ae
Southern - a:
Vowel in ‘put’ and ‘cup’
Northern - u
Southern - v
H’dropping?
RP does include ‘H’.
Most accents drop the ‘h’ in ‘holiday etc.
Water - what it is called?
‘t-glottalisation’
Car - final r sound?
Post vocalic R - rolling r sound - rhotic accents
What is the velar nasal and alveolar nasal?
Velar - ‘ng’
Alveolar - ‘n’
What was Labov’s Department store study?
Did a study in New York - Sacks, Macys, Kleins.
Sales assistant from sacks - upper class - used the r more, high prestige.
The sales assistant from kleins used it the lease - lower class - low prestige.
What else did Labov find?
Sacks - As class of store increased, the pronunciation of r increased.
Macy’s - r increased in careful speech. And they changed their accent from middle class to upper class more.
What is Labov’s Martha’s Vineyard Study?
Martha Vineyard - an island lying 3 miles off New England coast.
Population of 6,000 (Islanders - didn’t grow up there)
40,000 tourists (Summer people)
Living by fishing (Chilmark Fishermen - original people)
What is the social network theory?
Size and diversity of social network differs language.
What is a closed network?
When the people you know all know each other.
What is uniplex connections?
Family or work staff - some of the people you know, know each other.
What is a multiplex relationship?
Family and Work staff. When the people you know all know each other.
What is Giles’ Accommodation Theory?
The way they speak to accommodate the interlocutor.
What is Coupland’s Cardiff Study?
The use of:
1. glottalisation
2. g-dropping
3. h-dropping
4. flapped t
all increase the lower the speakers class.
