Region

Question 1

1970 Matched Guise Study

Answer 1

Howard Giles
Assessing how far responses to speakers were due to an individual’ accents alone, or to his or her character (status, power and persuasiveness)

Question 2

2003 Dialect Levelling

Answer 2

Paul Kerswill
Features of dialect merging into other dialects by social constructs and geographical diffusion.

Question 3

T-glottaling

Answer 3

Dropping the ‘t’
Wa-er

Question 4

L-vocalisation

Answer 4

Replacing the ‘l’ with ‘w’ or ‘oo’ sounds.
Girws

Question 5

1984 Estuary English

Answer 5

David Rosewarne
A mixture of widespread usage accents gaining popularity, around London.

Question 6

2003 th- fronting study

Answer 6

Paul Kerswill
Fink
Bovvered

Question 7

2008 & 2010 Liverpool Study

Answer 7

Kevin Watson

Question 8

1966 New York Study

Answer 8

Overt prestige of pre-consonantal (r)

Question 9

1961 Martha’s Vineyard Study

Answer 9

William Labov
Covert prestige of the New England Chilmark fisherman pronunciation of aw (mouse) and ay (mice).

Question 10

1974 Norwich Study

Answer 10

Peter Trudgill
Gender differences between ‘walking and talking’ vs ‘walkin and talkin’ and appearance of ‘s’ in ‘go’ and ‘goes’.

Question 11

1977 Belfast Study

Answer 11

James and Lesley Milroy
Closed and open social networks.

Question 12

1971 Restricted and Elaborated Code

Answer 12

Basil Bernstein
Lower class speakers tend to use restricted code, whereas middle class speakers tend to use elaborated code (though you can use both).