English accents

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English accents

• 8. Historical change (iii)

British prestige Innovations resisted in some
parts of Britain
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marking criteria
A Evidence of independent thought critical
awareness wide knowledge based on thorough
research clearly articulated, solid and viable
methodology perhaps some originality or
application of method, coupled with viable
conclusions. The structure and style should be
clear, concise and coherent. In short, a pleasure
to read.
B Good, highly competent work, demonstrating
thorough knowledge of the subject good critical
awareness with hints of potential for independent
thought solid research, viable methodology and
good application of it. The structure and style
should be clear, concise and coherent.
C Good awareness of, and adequate engagement
with, issues demonstrates satisfactory broad
knowledge, with viable if somewhat sketchy
methodology. Some shortcomings but in general
average work with viable conclusions. The
structure and style should be generally clear,
concise and coherent.
D Average awareness of issues and knowledge,
without any creative development. The student has
worked less than he/she should have, but their
work is not of such a standard deserving to fail.
This is the minimum standard required to build in
the subject.
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Posy essay desiderata
Consistently distinguish writing from speech,
using appropriate notation underlining or
quotes for orthography, /slashes/ or brackets
for transcribed speech.
Make clear the difference between special
spellings that imply a particular non-standard
pronunciation and those that do not
(eye-dialect wot, bitta, actcherly, jus,
dunno).
Correctly identify and describe the phonetic
processes depicted, including the constraints on
them. Properly distinguish elision (deletion) /
assimilation / fronting / stopping / glottalling.
Correctly identify the orthographic devices used
by the cartoonist, including the use of hyphens
and apostrophes. Show awareness of the principles
of English spelling.
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Recent changes in RP (i) early twentieth century
1  /O gt Q/ in CLOTH words cloth, cough, cross,
lost, off, often FORCE merger loss of /O_at_/ (gt
/O/) floor flaw, four for, source
sauce GOAT fronting oU gt _at_U goat, over the
road, oh no loss of o obey, November,
biological, microphone opening of // that bad
man replacement of 4 by very sorry for any
errors
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Recent changes in RP (ii) mid twentieth century
loss of /U_at_/ (gt /O/) poor, sure, cure,
your(s), youre drift from weak /I/ to
/_at_/ possible, visible, sanity, carelessness plosi
ve epenthesis fence, instance, conscience,
emphasis yod coalescence before weak V actual,
perceptual, gradual glottalling of /t/ _C,
_C football, witness, atlas, network, quite
C
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glottal /t/
footprint 'f?t?pr?nt?, 'f?t ?pr?nt ?,
'f??pr?n?
button 'b?tn?, 'b??n?
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Recent changes in RP (iii) late twentieth
century

• weak final I gt i (/i/) happy, coffee
  various, radiate
• backing of /_at_U/ before 5 told, cold, goal,
  whole
• unrounding, fronting of /u, U/ spoon, you, good
• glottalling of /t/ in envs. _V, _ quite easy,
  not only, right.
• vocalization of /l/ (5 gt o) milk, shelf, feel,
  table, middle
• yod coalescence before strong V Tuesday, tune,
  reduce, duke
• monophthonging of /e_at_/ gt E fair and square,
  Mary
• uptalk (HR on statement) My names Mary
  /Smith.
• s-affricate assimilation (sgtS) _tr strong _tS
  student

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The symbol i
green grin sleep slip feeling filling
i I
? happy coffee valley glorious tell me
i
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tun, tSun
duk, dZuk
nu
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Wells, 2000LongmanPronunciationDictionary
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uptalk
(old) \Hi. 'Im 'Cathy \Pomeroy. Im a
'customer \service agent. (new) \Hi. 'Im
'Cathy /Pomeroy. Im a 'customer /service agent.
There was this /girl who lived like 'three
doors /down from me. Were 'working \/people,
but our 'pay doesnt re/flect that.
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s-affricate assimilation
s changes to ? before an affricate
s ? ? / _ tr, t?
student'?t?u?dn?t
strong?tr??