regional varieties

Question 1

Kerswill

Answer 1

dialect levelling - accents and dialects are becoming more similar

Question 2

Mugglestone

Answer 2

the number of RP speakers is decreasing

Question 3

Giles

Answer 3

matched guise experiment found RP speaker are viewed as:
intelligent, trustworthy, unfriendly, unsociable

Question 4

Harrington

Answer 4

over the years, queens speech diverging from RP

Question 5

Montgomery

Answer 5

RP used in adverts for technical descriptions, regional accents for other things like food adverts

Question 6

Rosewarne

Answer 6

coined ‘Estuary English’ to describe the language used by people near the thames, contains:
glottal stop, yod-coalescence, th-fronting and h-dropping
no lexical and grammatical differences

Question 7

Coggle

Answer 7

Estuary English acts as bridge between RP and cockney

Question 8

Dent

Answer 8

Accents are like spoken birthmarks

Question 9

Harbridge

Answer 9

RP found to be least funny accent

Question 10

Trudgill

Answer 10

Archaic forms ‘ thee’ ‘thou’ used in Yorkshire