| Estuary English?: A Sociophonetic Study of Teenage Speech in the Home Counties Contributor(s): Przedlacka, Joanna (Author) |
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ISBN: 082045964X ISBN-13: 9780820459646 Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing OUR PRICE: $29.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language |
| Dewey: 427.2 |
| LCCN: 2002075426 |
| Series: Polish Studies in English Language and Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.8" W x 8.2" (0.60 lbs) 187 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: >>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 > 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 > should be viewed as a number of distinct accents with some influences of London speech, not a single and definable variety. Contents: Estuary English--SED--Accent variation studies--Sociophonetics--Southern British English-RP-T-glottaling-L-vocalisation. |
