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Question 1

The Town of Corby

Answer 1

a. 1930s (not too important of a fact)
b. It received a big influx of Scottish workers.
c. In Corby there are features of local language which are associated with Scottish.
i. Even if people there have never been to Scotland.
d. For example, pronunciation of vowels in words such as “goat”.

Question 2

which town had huge influx of scottish workera and so local dialect has scottish featurs even if people never went

Answer 2

Corby

Question 3

Example of scottish sounding feature in Corby

Answer 3

pronunciation of the word goat

Question 4

1. Standardisation and Classes.

Answer 4

a. Many regional accents associated with local class.
i. Upper and middle classes expected to use standardised English.
b. Before printing press and standardisation, it was acceptable to speak and write in own dialects.
c. Then, Latin and French were regarded as prestigious languages.
i. Applied by the elite in education, law, and literature.
d. Some accents are deemed “better” than others and certain features may become fashionable.

Question 5

4. Case study: music and “black English”

Answer 5

a. Linguistic features of “black English” associated with rap music are regarding as cool.
b. They are adopted by other speakers.
c. Eg. Certain forms of address:
i. Bae
ii. Brother

Question 6

Who did the study on the spread of th fronting

Answer 6

Paul Foulkes and Gerard Docherty

Question 7

What study did Paul Foulkes and Gerard Docherty do?

Answer 7

looked at the spread of th fronting

Question 8

SUPRA-LOCAL

Answer 8

larger local area

Question 9

HYPER-LOCAL

Answer 9

very specific local area

Question 10

Who did dialect levelling in Newcastle study?

Answer 10

Dominic Watts

Question 11

What did Dominic Watts find?

Answer 11

Young people using supra-local forms “I don’t speak with a Geordie accent, I speak, like, the Northern accent”