Accents of English, Vol. 1
Accents of English is about the way English is pronounced by different people in diffeent places. Volume I provides a synthesizing introduction, which shows how accents vary not only geographically, but also with social class, formality, sex and age; and in volumes 2 and 3 the author examines in greater depth the various accents used by people who speak English as their mother tongue: the accents of the regions of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland (volume 2), and of the USA, Canada, and...
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Accents of English is about the way English is pronounced by different people in different places.
Volume I: An Introduction: Preface; Typographical conventions and phonetic symbols; Part I. Aspects of Accent: 1. Linguistic and social variability; 2. Accent phonology; 3. How accents differ; 4. Why accents differ; Part II. Sets and Systems: 5. The reference accents; 6. Standard lexical sets; 7. Systems: a typology; Part III. Developments and Processes: 8. Residualisms; 9. British prestige innovations; 10. Some American innovations; 11. Some further British innovations; Sources and further reading; References; Index.
