Regional varieties of English (Accent and dialect)

Question 1

What is accent?

Answer 1

How you say something

Question 2

What is dialect?

Answer 2

The words you use

Question 3

What is Matched Guise?

Answer 3

An experiment where one speaker speaks in a range of different accents in order for people to pass judgement about an accent

Question 4

What is Shibboleth?

Answer 4

Collection of features based on how language is used in a place

Question 5

What is G dropping?

Answer 5

The word final (g) sound gets dropped

Question 6

Wht is H dropping?

Answer 6

The word intial (h) sound gets dropped

Question 7

What is Yod-coalescence?

Answer 7

Pronunciation of the (j) sound in words like Tuesday

Question 8

What is Recieved Pronunciation?

Answer 8

Accent which is typically describd as “posh” uses all prestigious pronunciations, asscoiated with the Queen and BBc lad to view it as correct, fatures such as long “a” in words like “bath” not dropping any sounds, about 2% of UK spak it

Question 9

What is Brummie?

Answer 9

Speakers who use a Birmingham accent

Question 10

What is Glottal stop?

Answer 10

Missing out of the (t) sound in words

Question 11

What is TH fronting?

Answer 11

Pronouncing th at start of wrods as f eg. fing instead of thing

Question 12

Wht is a Rhotic accent?

Answer 12

pronouncs r after vowels i words like car

Question 13

What is Giles Matched Guise study?

Answer 13

Experiment found that speakers of RP were judged as: Intelligent, trustworthy, unfriendly and unsociable

Question 14

What was Kerswill’s dialect leveling?

Answer 14

Accents and dialects are becoming more and more similar.

Question 15

What was Mugglestone’s theory?

Answer 15

The number of RP speakers is decreasing

Question 16

What was Harrington’s theory?

Answer 16

Ovr a period of 50 years, the Queen’s speech have been diverging from RP

Question 17

What was Giles and Powesland’s theory?

Answer 17

Psychology lecturer experiment:
Same lecture delivered two identical lecturers to two groups using RP and a Birmingham accent. Found the Brummie speaker was rated less intelligent and rated less favourably.

Question 18

What was Montgomery’s theory?

Answer 18

RP is used in adverts for technical descriptions. Regional accents are used for other things like food.

Question 19

What was Harbridge’s joke study?

Answer 19

Surveyed 4000 pople to find funniest accent:
Brummie was funniest
Livrpudlian was next funniest
RP was least funny

Question 20

What was Trudgill’s theory?

Answer 20

The archaic forms of second person pronouns, thee and thou, still used in Yorkshire

Question 21

What was Mahoney et al’s experiment?

Answer 21

Guilt experiment:
Students played recordings of fake police interviews or suspcts with diffrent accents. Brummie accents more likely to be judged as guilty

Question 22

What was Giles Capital Punishment study?

Answer 22

Fiv groups of students given info about capital punishment in five different ways, four were lectures from speakers with RP, Somerset, South Welsh and Brummie accent, final group were given the written equivalent, found that:
RP and written presentation most impressive
Brummie was least impressive
RP and written most likely to change students minds

Question 23

What was Rosewarne’s theory?

Answer 23

Coined term “Estuary English” describe the language of the people who lived near the Thames estuary. Contains:
Phonlogical- glottal stop, yod-coalescence, TH fronting and h-dropping
No notable lexical or grammatical difference

Question 24

What was Coggle’s theory?

Answer 24

Estuary English acts as bridge between Cockney and RP

Question 25

What was Dent’s theory?

Answer 25

Accents are like spoken birthmarks