Region

Question 1

Accent

Answer 1

Sound and pronunciation

Question 2

What is a social accent

Answer 2

This relates to cultural and educational backgrounds (convergence and divergence)

Question 3

Dialect levelling

Answer 3

This is when dialects lose their distinctive features and become more similar

Question 4

Vertical social mobility

Answer 4

When people adapt language to fit into a particular social group

Question 5

Pear, 1931

Answer 5

Found people have different perceptions of a speaker Accor to the accent they hear them talk with

Question 6

Dixon, Mahoney and cocks, 2002

Answer 6

Had participants listen to the dialogue between a policeman and a suspect. the result showed that the suspect was perceived to be more likely to be guilty when they spoke in non-standard forms such as the Birmingham accent

Question 7

Giles, 1975

Answer 7

He had a group of 17-year-old rate speakers in terms of competence and intelligence, although they were all the same speaker using different accents, the teenagers rate of the RP accent higher than the non-standard ones

Question 8

Martha’s Vineyard, Labov

Answer 8

Labov investigated, dip thongs among native people that live on Martha’s Vineyard. The local fisherman was seen to use diphthongs the most as a form of divergence, so that they were not associated with the tourists

Question 9

Trudgill, 1974

Answer 9

He conducted a study, looking at how your social class, gender and the style of speech in part to your talk. Investigated 60 people on how they use -inv ending, and found the working-class use non-standard forms at the most. Although females were more likely to use standard forms among all social classes.

Question 10

Labov department stores

Answer 10

Investigate the app annunciation in three department stores, sacks, Macy’s and S klein He asked the workers say ‘fourth floor’ and found that the workers in the higher class department shop use the correct R pronunciation more often.

Question 11

Milroy and Milroy Belfast study

Answer 11

They looked at how close and open networks impact your language. In 3 suburbs in Belfast where male unemployment was high, they found that because men belonged to an open network they use standard English. Where is the women were in a close network used, non-standard English. Overall, your social network has more impact on your language than class or gender