Norwich Study

Question 1

Who conducted this study?

Answer 1

Trudgill

Question 2

In what year?

Answer 2

1974

Question 3

What was done?

Answer 3

Observed whether in e.g. the final sound of ‘singing’, the speaker used the alveolar consonant /n/ or the velar consonant /(elongated)n/

Question 4

Results

Answer 4

middle-middle class -> male: 96 female: 100
lower working class -> male: 0 female: 3
Results show differentiation in social class as well as gender - women more aspirational socially