Estuary English? : a sociophonetic study of teenage speech in the Home Counties

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Estuary English? : a sociophonetic study of teenage speech in the Home Counties

Joanna Przedlacka

(Polish studies in English language and literature, v. 4)

P. Lang, c2002

  • : germany
  • : us

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Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Warsaw, 1999

Includes bibliographical references (p. [99]-107)

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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 > 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 > should be viewed as a number of distinct accents with some influences of London speech, not a single and definable variety. Contents: Estuary English--SED--Accent variation studies--Sociophonetics--Southern British English-RP-T-glottaling-L-vocalisation.

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