Petyt and Macauly's Studies

Question 1

What accent feature did Petyt look at?

Answer 1

h-dropping at the start of words

Question 2

Where did Petyt do their studies?

Answer 2

Western Parts of Yorkshire

Question 3

What did Petyt end up finding?

Answer 3

h-dropping was common in West Yorkshire, and social class was a significant factor like in Trudgills study

Question 4

What did Macauly look at? Where?

Answer 4

Looked at omission of the ‘t’ phoneme in Glasgow

Question 5

What did Macauly find?

Answer 5

Correlation between ‘t’ phoneme dropping and social class

Question 6

Give a statistic which Macauly found

Answer 6

69% of lower working class speakers used glottal stops and no one used glottal stops in the upper middle class or middle middle class