Urban Voices: Accent Studies in the British Isles

by Paul Foulkes (Editor), Gerard Docherty (Editor)

Overview

Bringing together a team of dialectologists, sociolinguists, phoneticians and phonologists, this book presents exciting new data, as well as well-known research on phonological variation and change in urban accents across the British Isles. Each chapter is split in two sections: the first is a detailed description of the social and stylistic variation of a particular accent, the second is a discussion of the implications of this data in broader theoretical terms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780340706084
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/01/1999
Series:	A Hodder Arnold Publication
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gerard Docherty, Paul Foulkes

Table of Contents

The international phonetic alphabet
Urban voices - overview
Patterns of variation and change in three Newcastle vowels: is this dialect levelling?
Derby and Newcastle: instrumental phonetics and variationist studies
Sheffield dialect in the 1990s: revisiting the concept of NORMs
West Wirral: norms, self-reports and usage
Sandwell, West Midlands: ambiguous perspectives on gender patterns and models of change
Norwich endogenous and exogenous linguistic change
Dialect levelling: change and continuity in Milton Keynes, Reading and Hull
South East London English: discrete versus continuous modelling of consonantal reduction
Cardiff a real-time study of glottalization
Glasgow accent and voice quality
Edinburgh: descriptive material
Standard English in Edinburgh and Glasgow: the Scottish Vowel Length Rule revealed
(London)Derry: between Ulster and local speech - class, ethnicity and language change
Dublin English: current changes and their motivation.