Accents of English 3

Wells, John C.

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“…Australian English vowels are in general more fronted and tenser than the same vowels in other dialects of English (Wells, 1982), and it is thus not surprising that Table 2 reveals distinct asymmetry in the tenseness errors made by the Australian listeners: erroneous identifications of tense vowels as lax outnumber erroneous identifications of lax vowels as tense by more than two to one. (For the native listeners, tenseness errors in each direction were fewer, and more nearly equal in number.)…”

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“…First, the Australian listeners made less use of duration to distinguish longer /ae/ from shorter /e/. Note that some Australian vowel contrasts may be signalled in large part by durational distinctions (Fletcher et al, 1994;Harrington and Cassidy, 1994), so that Australian listeners should in principle be able to exploit durational cues to vowel identity; in this particular case, however, Australian English does not make as marked a durational distinction between the two vowels as American English does (Wells, 1982), and this presumably accounts for the Australian listenersÕ lesser reliance on the duration cue. Second, we found a difference between the American and the Australian groups in the analysis of information transmitted about vowel features.…”

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“…luck vs. look/Luke in Scottish English, and Luke vs. look/ luck in Yorkshire English). American English, though it in fact maintains this three-way distinction, has fewer vowels (16) than many other varieties of English (Wells, 1982). Some distinctions are further disappearing in some varieties of American English; Labov et al (1991) showed that listeners from one American dialect background often fail to discriminate minimal pairs of words spoken by speakers from another area.…”

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Vowel perception: Effects of non-native language vs. non-native dialect

Cutler

Smits

Cooper

2005

Speech Communication

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Three groups of listeners identified the vowel in CV and VC syllables produced by an American English talker. The listeners were (a) native speakers of American English, (b) native speakers of Australian English (different dialect), and (c) native speakers of Dutch (different language). The syllables were embedded in multispeaker babble at three signal-tonoise ratios (0 dB, 8 dB, and 16 dB). The identification performance of native listeners was significantly better than that of listeners with another language but did not significantly differ from the performance of listeners with another dialect. Dialect differences did however affect the type of perceptual confusions which listeners made; in particular, the Australian listenersÕ judgements of vowel tenseness were more variable than the American listenersÕ judgements, which may be ascribed to cross-dialectal differences in this vocalic feature. Although listening difficulty can result when speech input mismatches the native dialect in terms of the precise cues for and boundaries of phonetic categories, the difficulty is very much less than that which arises when speech input mismatches the native language in terms of the repertoire of phonemic categories available.

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Vowel perception: Effects of non-native language vs. non-native dialect

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Cooper

2005

Speech Communication

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“…Indeed, Harold Orton, when working on the Linguistic atlas of England (1978), reportedly insisted that an isogloss following the River Tees be drawn (the Tees being the only river to have an isogloss follow it) because he knew it to be a boundary between Durham and Yorkshire (Clive Upton, p.c.). However, in modern dialect groupings, both Trudgill (1990) and Wells (1982) group Teesside with Tyneside in the "north-east" or "far north," respectively, with Trudgill (1990:77) claiming:…”

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“A place between places”: Language and identities in a border town

Llamas

2007

Lang. Soc.

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This article investigates variation in the use of glottalling and glottalization of the voiceless stops (p t k) in an urban variety of British English. Middlesbrough, the locality in question, lies on a regional border in the North of England and has been subject to repeated redrawing of local administrative boundaries and shifting orientations in terms of popular culture. Linguistic trends that converge with North Eastern varieties and diverge from those associated with Yorkshire are correlated with attitudinal information and informants' shifting sense of the identity of the area. Findings reveal socially conditioned variation in perceptions of language and community identity that have clear connections with both the changing sociogeographic status of the urban center and with the linguistic trends uncovered. Results emerging from the attitudinal data offer insight into both the indexical function of the linguistic forms of interest and the motivation for the change in progress in the voiceless stops. (Language variation, regional identity, shifting orientation, North East England)

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“…Now, though, the glottal stop is well attested in almost all British English varieties, from Received Pronunciation (cf. Wells 1982, Cruttenden 1994, Fabricius 2000 to too many regional varieties to do justice to here.…”

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Phonological resistance and innovation in the North-West of England

Watson¹

2006

English Today

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Over the past few decades, studies of dialect levelling have concluded that phonological convergence amongst varieties of British English is rife. This review attempts to demonstrate the opposite, in the variety of English spoken in Liverpool. Despite various media reports predicting the death of Liverpool English, evidence is provided here that the variety appears to be resisting the innovation of ‘T-glottalling’, a feature which is frequent elsewhere, and instead shows signs of divergence from any kind of supra-local regional norm.

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Accents of English 3

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Vowel perception: Effects of non-native language vs. non-native dialect

Vowel perception: Effects of non-native language vs. non-native dialect

“A place between places”: Language and identities in a border town

Phonological resistance and innovation in the North-West of England

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