English Accents and Dialects: An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of British English |
Contents
Variation in English | 1 |
Dialect variation | 13 |
Accent variation | 26 |
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ain't auxiliary Belfast Bradford Bristol British English chapter colloquial consonant contrast course Crawcrook daft Dave Mackay different from RP diphthongs distinction East Anglia Edinburgh English English English speakers example figure final vowel foreign learners forms full verb glottal stop grammatical language lexical Liverpool London lunch at home mean monophthongs multiple negation native speakers Newcastle non-standard dialects normally Norman Wisdom north of England northern Norwich Notes occurs pairs of words particularly past tense Pete Pontypridd post-vocalic present tense pronounced pronunciation put and putt recording The speaker regional accents regional variation RP speakers Scotland Scottish accents Scottish English Scottish standard English social scale speak speech standard English tape thing third person singular thruppence Tyneside Typical realizations usually varieties Wales Walsall Walsall FC Welsh West Midlands word list Yorkshire younger speakers