Dublin English: Evolution and changeThe present book describes the English language in all its facets as spoken in present-day Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland. It covers the entire range of its history since the first arrival of English there several hundred years ago. Apart from the evolution of English in the capital, the book also concentrates on the significant changes which have been taking place in the speech of Dublin in the past 15 years or so. The rapid change of Dublin English is seen as a correlate to the many social and economic developments which have occurred in recent years. The type of linguistic change in Dublin is driven by dissociation (the mirror-image of accommodation) and will be of particular interest to scholars working within the language variation and change framework as it will to those more generally concerned with varieties of English and their specific profiles vis à vis more standard forms of English. |
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... long stretch of speech everything would appea which was worth registering. There are two disadvantages to this ... vowel is STRUT However, the actual word strut does not occur anywhere in the recordings 01 Irish English which the author ...
... long stretch of speech everything would appea which was worth registering. There are two disadvantages to this ... vowel is STRUT However, the actual word strut does not occur anywhere in the recordings 01 Irish English which the author ...
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... vowels are only weakly distinguished. Both are realised as a long low central vowel, [ax]: [blaznd] and [glazns] respectively. The variables (th) and (t) The features of Dublin and Irish English in general which show the highest degree ...
... vowels are only weakly distinguished. Both are realised as a long low central vowel, [ax]: [blaznd] and [glazns] respectively. The variables (th) and (t) The features of Dublin and Irish English in general which show the highest degree ...
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... long realisation of phonemically long vowels, often with disyllabification as a result, the realisation of ... vowel realisations to those in other varieties of Dublin English it would seem appropriate to juxtapose the vowel systems of ...
... long realisation of phonemically long vowels, often with disyllabification as a result, the realisation of ... vowel realisations to those in other varieties of Dublin English it would seem appropriate to juxtapose the vowel systems of ...
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... vowel in the region of [e] is found instead. Consonants In the area of consonants there are equally clear ... long history in Dublin English (see comments in section 6 Medieval Irish English below). In other varieties in the Republic the ...
... vowel in the region of [e] is found instead. Consonants In the area of consonants there are equally clear ... long history in Dublin English (see comments in section 6 Medieval Irish English below). In other varieties in the Republic the ...
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... long /u:/ in the word book which is not part of mainstream Irish English as the latter tends to have the long vowel ... vowel close to [e]. e.g. over ['Aovu]. 2) Differentiation of short vowels before tautosyllabie historic /r/ deserve [do' ...
... long /u:/ in the word book which is not part of mainstream Irish English as the latter tends to have the long vowel ... vowel close to [e]. e.g. over ['Aovu]. 2) Differentiation of short vowels before tautosyllabie historic /r/ deserve [do' ...
Contents
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3 Attitudes to Dublin English | 92 |
4 The wider context | 107 |
5 The grammar of Dublin English | 115 |
6 The vocabulary of Dublin English | 133 |
4 Prescriptive comments by Dublin authors | 178 |
5 Early modern Dublin English | 189 |
6 Medieval Irish English | 194 |
7 Supraregionalisation | 202 |
IV Guide to the CDROM | 211 |
V Lexical sets for Dublin English | 225 |
VI Glossary | 233 |
Maps | 239 |
7 Placenames in Dublin | 146 |
III Reaching back in time
| 149 |
1 The history of English in Ireland | 150 |
2 Letters as linguistic evidence | 158 |
3 Literary texts as linguistic evidence | 166 |
References | 243 |
Index | 261 |
Soundfiles referred to in book | 269 |
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19th century accent alveolar stops Atlas of Irish attested back vowels Bargy BOYLE British English capital CD-ROM changes in Dublin Cork definitely dental Dentalisation dialect diphthong diphthongisation Discover Dublin English dissociation Dublin vowel shift early modern English in Ireland epenthesis Estuary English female figures final find first forms of English fricatives habitual Hickey infinitives influence instance intervocalic Irish English Irish language language lexical diffusion lexical set linguistic long vowel mainstream Dublin English mainstream speakers mainstream varieties Neogrammarian non-Dublin non-standard option phonetic phonological popular Dublin English position present-day Dublin English programme pronoun pronunciation raising realisation Received Pronunciation recognised recordings Republic of Ireland retraction rhotic rural sentences Sheridan short vowels significant Sound Atlas sound files southern British English specific speech term test persons typical Ulster Scots unstressed varieties of English varieties of Irish velarised vernacular vowel shift word word-final