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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... realisation of the /ai/ vowel is [or] in vernacular varieties of Dublin English and [at] in middle class Dublin English, including the supraregional variety of English in the Republic of Ireland which is derived from nonvemacular usage ...
... realisation of the /ai/ vowel is [or] in vernacular varieties of Dublin English and [at] in middle class Dublin English, including the supraregional variety of English in the Republic of Ireland which is derived from nonvemacular usage ...
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... realisation of these words. To elicit a pronunciation of these items, the following question was added to the above in each interview. Table 2.2 Structure of rapid anonymous interview, variant 2 Question 3: I wonder could you tell me ...
... realisation of these words. To elicit a pronunciation of these items, the following question was added to the above in each interview. Table 2.2 Structure of rapid anonymous interview, variant 2 Question 3: I wonder could you tell me ...
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... realisation in Irish English was realised close to [or] in those varieties which showed the vowel shift. (3) /ai/ /oi/ Local DE [91] — [or] Mainstream DE [3.1] — [or] New DE [(11] — [01] Testing for the (oi) variable within the first ...
... realisation in Irish English was realised close to [or] in those varieties which showed the vowel shift. (3) /ai/ /oi/ Local DE [91] — [or] Mainstream DE [3.1] — [or] New DE [(11] — [01] Testing for the (oi) variable within the first ...
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... realisation of (oi) also had a retracted realisation of (ai) which would suggest that the former was caused by the retraction evident in the latter. 2.4 Results of the data collection The method used for data collection in the initial ...
... realisation of (oi) also had a retracted realisation of (ai) which would suggest that the former was caused by the retraction evident in the latter. 2.4 Results of the data collection The method used for data collection in the initial ...
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Evolution and change Raymond Hickey. from the local [or] realisation. But during the anonymous interview, when presented with a question from a customer who claimed short-sightedness, a tenser and clearer articulation was used, even the ...
Evolution and change Raymond Hickey. from the local [or] realisation. But during the anonymous interview, when presented with a question from a customer who claimed short-sightedness, a tenser and clearer articulation was used, even the ...
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