Estuary English? - A sociophonetic study of teenage speech in the Home Counties

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.

List of contents

Contents: Estuary English - SED - Accent variation studies - Sociophonetics - Southern British English - RP - T-glottaling - L-vocalisation.

Product details

• Authors: Joanna Przedlacka
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9783631393406
• ISBN: 978-3-631-39340-6
• No. of pages: 187
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 11 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 280 g
• Series: Polish Studies in English Language and Literature; Polish Studies in English Language and Literature; Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics