Accent and dialect variation
- Created by: elle1999
- Created on: 22-03-16 10:09
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- Language and region
- Accent- way in which people pronounce sounds
- Dialect- vocal used.
- Received pronunciation
- 3% of people
- Non regional
- Prescriptivismvs descriptivism
- Prescriptivism- features are right or wrong.
- Descriptivism- no right or wrong features
- Based on what people do.
- How do accents vary
- Some features that can broadly characterise accents
- 'Bath' 'Grass'
- regional speakers have different sounds in inventories
- Glottal stops feature in many accents- closure of vocal chords
- Overt prestige
- Status publicly acknowledged.
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