English Accents and Dialects. An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles
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English Accents and Dialects is an essential guide to the varieties of English spoken in Britain and Ireland today. Together with invaluable overviews of numerous regional accents and dialects, this fifth edition provides you with a set of diagnostic tools to help you identify Received Pronounciation as well as several major non-standard varieties of English. The main regional differences are followed by a survey of speech in over 20 areas of the UK and Ireland, audio samples of which are available online free for you to download. In this fifth edition, accent and dialect are discussed within the broader framework of language variation, including phonetic, phonological, grammatical, lexical, historical and stylistic differences. Thoroughly updated to include recent findings on London English, Aberdeen English and Liverpool English, Englsih Accents and Dialects, Fifth Edition also contains: *New entries on Hull, Manchester, Carlisle, Middlesbrough, Southampton, West London, Lancashire and the Shetlands *Over 20 audio recordings free for you to download from www.hodderplus.com/linguistics *Additional exercises to accompany the new varieties and answers online *Even clearer maps *The latest International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) chart
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English Accents and Dialects. An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles, Arthur Hughes, Peter Trudgill
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- 2012
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