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Title: Theories of Accent and Dialect
Description: An English Language study which briefly sums up some theories on accent and dialect
Description: An English Language study which briefly sums up some theories on accent and dialect
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Malcom Petyt (1985) – Bradford Study
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Findings: Petyt conducted an experiment on ‘H’ dropping (e
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dropping the ‘H’ from ‘hat’)
and whether it was relevant to social class
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Grammatical/dialectical features of theory: Upward divergence
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Dialect levelling
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E
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The use of ‘like’ being
introduced into young English language by the influences of America and the media
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These slight imperfections will
be handed down to their children and to other people in their social group, eventually
altering the language
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Different language forms have derived from invasions (bringing over features of the invading
forces language)
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Grammatical/dialectical features of theory: dialect levelling, fillers (like), prestige accents
Title: Theories of Accent and Dialect
Description: An English Language study which briefly sums up some theories on accent and dialect
Description: An English Language study which briefly sums up some theories on accent and dialect