Language And Social Groups

Question 1

Labov social stratification of English in NYC

Answer 1

• results showed that those who were aspiring to use a prestige accent used the post vocalic r
• the higher the social class the more frequent the occurrence of rhotic /r/

Question 2

Trudgill

Answer 2

• dropping the g at the end of words (runnin) was more likely to feature in w/c speech