MLE Flashcards
1
Q
What is MLE?
A
dialect of London English which has emerged early 1980’s where in London been high levels of immigration
2
Q
What’s included
A
east end cockney dialect
3
Q
examples
A
grime artists ‘man’ such as Big Shaq ‘mans not hot’ new personal pronoun too replace ‘I’
4
Q
Features
A
goose vowel /u:/ in words like ‘food’ pronounced further forward in the mouth
pragmatic marker ‘you get me’ used as informal tag question