Estuary English: Levelling at the Interface of RP and South-Eastern British English |
Contents
The aim and scope of the present investigation | 4 |
CockneyPopular London | 5 |
Linguistic characteristics of EE | 10 |
Regional extension of EE | 16 |
Social and linguistic evaluation of EE | 22 |
Advanced RP | 31 |
Extralinguistic variables | 41 |
diachronic perspective | 56 |
Vowels and diphthongs | 102 |
Interpreting results with regard to the notion of | 119 |
hypotheses and findings | 128 |
EE as an accent continuum ? | 133 |
Explaining results | 139 |
Acts of identity and preservation of diversity | 149 |
60 | 155 |
Conclusion | 159 |
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accent continuum acrolectal acts of identity alveolar basilectal central chapter Cockney Colchester and Canterbury consonants core variants diachronic diachronic perspective diphthong diphthong shift discussion EE group EE variants England Essex Estuary English frequency fricatives glottal stop GOOSE Fronting group of variants H Dropping HAPPY Tensing hypothesis increase innovation Interview Style intervocalic T Glottalling Kent Keynes and Reading labio-dental Labov language linguistic Lo-Co-Ca project London English Lutz mesolectal middle-class accents middle-class speakers Milton Keynes monophthong non-RP pattern of variation perspective A comparison phonetic context pool of features Popular London pre-pausal pre-vocalic pronunciation Public School Received Pronunciation regional accent Regional variation Rosewarne 1984 social and regional social classes Social variation south-east speech ST Palatalization stigmatized stylistic variation syllable synchronic perspective t-glottalling Table TH Fronting Tollfree Tony Blair trend upper middle class upper-middle-class variable variation in London Vocalization Vowel variants Williams and Kerswill working-class Yod Coalescence Yod Dropping