| Estuary English?: A Sociophonetic Study of Teenage Speech in the Home Counties Contributor(s): Fisiak, Jacek (Editor), Przedlacka, Joanna (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631393407 ISBN-13: 9783631393406 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $85.03 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language |
| Series: Polish Studies in English Language and Literature |
| Physical Information: 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 Estuary English . 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 Estuary English should be viewed as a number of distinct accents with some influences of London speech, not a single and definable variety. |
