Regional varieties of English (Accent and dialect) Flashcards
What is accent?
How you say something
What is dialect?
The words you use
What is Matched Guise?
An experiment where one speaker speaks in a range of different accents in order for people to pass judgement about an accent
What is Shibboleth?
Collection of features based on how language is used in a place
What is G dropping?
The word final (g) sound gets dropped
Wht is H dropping?
The word intial (h) sound gets dropped
What is Yod-coalescence?
Pronunciation of the (j) sound in words like Tuesday
What is Recieved Pronunciation?
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
What is Brummie?
Speakers who use a Birmingham accent
What is Glottal stop?
Missing out of the (t) sound in words
What is TH fronting?
Pronouncing th at start of wrods as f eg. fing instead of thing
Wht is a Rhotic accent?
pronouncs r after vowels i words like car
What is Giles Matched Guise study?
Experiment found that speakers of RP were judged as: Intelligent, trustworthy, unfriendly and unsociable
What was Kerswill’s dialect leveling?
Accents and dialects are becoming more and more similar.
What was Mugglestone’s theory?
The number of RP speakers is decreasing
What was Harrington’s theory?
Ovr a period of 50 years, the Queen’s speech have been diverging from RP
What was Giles and Powesland’s theory?
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.
What was Montgomery’s theory?
RP is used in adverts for technical descriptions. Regional accents are used for other things like food.
What was Harbridge’s joke study?
Surveyed 4000 pople to find funniest accent:
Brummie was funniest
Livrpudlian was next funniest
RP was least funny
What was Trudgill’s theory?
The archaic forms of second person pronouns, thee and thou, still used in Yorkshire
What was Mahoney et al’s experiment?
Guilt experiment:
Students played recordings of fake police interviews or suspcts with diffrent accents. Brummie accents more likely to be judged as guilty
What was Giles Capital Punishment study?
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
What was Rosewarne’s theory?
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
What was Coggle’s theory?
Estuary English acts as bridge between Cockney and RP
