Estuary English?

A sociophonetic study of teenage speech in the Home Counties

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• Joanna Przedlacka

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• 187 pagine
• 7 ore di lettura

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This book discusses the phonetic make-up of the teenage speech in the Home Counties in order to verify the status of a putative new variety referred to as «Estuary English». The study compares the findings of a field research carried out by the author in the vicinity of London in 1998/1999 with the data from the Survey of English Dialects obtained half a century earlier. The results of the research show that «Estuary English» should be viewed as a number of distinct accents with some influences of London speech, not a single and definable variety.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2002