Lancashire

Barras, William

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“…Barras (2015, p. 277) explains that rhotic accents in England can be viewed as ‘unsophisticated’, reflective of ‘Farmer Giles’ imagery. This subsequently leads to potential stereotyping, as indicated by T29 himself, of being friendly, but unintelligent.…”

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Varieties of ‘standard accents’ among teachers in contemporary Britain

Baratta

2021

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This paper investigates accent variation within the UK, applied to the professional context of teaching. The purpose is two‐fold: first, to discuss a variety of accents in contemporary Britain, demonstrating how accents can be categorised based on the degree to which they mark the speaker's local origins. Second, by focusing on teachers’ accents within the context of teacher training in the UK, information can be obtained regarding which particular accent varieties are preferred in a profession in which accent is relevant to professional behaviour. In addition, two aims can serve to provide a better understanding of what are, in effect, suggested ‘standard’ accents within the teaching profession.

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Varieties of ‘standard accents’ among teachers in contemporary Britain

Baratta

2021

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“…This paper is framed within the synchronic research of the Lancashire dialect during the nineteenth century. Despite previous studies on this dialect (Ruano-García 2007; Barras 2015), the phonological features of this variety still remain unexplained. This is because research has mainly tackled the general linguistic phenomena of northern dialects or general dialect features of the Lancashire dialect.…”

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“…Despite the importance of literary-dialect works in dialect research and the previous studies that have been carried out on the Lancashire dialect (Downing 1980;Sánchez 2003;Ruano-García 2007;Barras 2015), the phonological aspects of this variety remain largely unexplored. Thereby, the present paper expects to contribute to a better understanding of the phonological phenomena of the Lancashire vernacular.…”

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Analysis of sounds and spellings based on RP [i:] in the nineteenth-century Lancashire vernacular

Hamade

2023

Estud. humanist., Filol.

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Northern dialects and the Lancashire vernacular have been substantially represented in literature. Regional literature is principally classified into dialect literature and literary dialect. The former is addressed to a limited readership as it comprises those novels, plays and poems that are entirely composed in a non-standard variety. The latter relates to the literary production which is for the most part written in standard English, except the characters’ dialogues that are marked with a particular variety. This last approach is considered to be a useful tool for linguists in dialect study. This paper analyses the sounds and spellings related to the FLEECE lexical set in the nineteenth-century Lancashire vernacular, according to Wells’s classification (1982) for words containing RP [i:]. To this end, several nineteenth-century literary dialect works were compiled and studied. In this endeavor, the deviant spellings associated with RP [i:] are gathered and attributed to their pronunciations in the dialect. The present paper examines the coexistence of sounds for FLEECE on the grounds of historical and sociolinguistic reasons. Keywords: Lancashire dialect; literary dialect; deviant spellings; dialect sounds; FLEECE lexical set

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“…It is sometimes called the fur-bear merger or the her-hair merger and is typically associated with accents in Merseyside (Knowles, 1973;Wells, 1982:361;West, 2015;Watson & Clark, 2013) and in various locations in Greater Manchester and Lancashire such as Bolton and Blackburn (Turton, 2015). Although we cannot consider the phonetic quality of the merged vowel with our survey methods, it is commonly noted that present-day Liverpool speakers merge to a fronter-like [εː] pronunciation, whereas Lancashire has a more NURSE-like [ɜː] or [ɵː] vowel (Barras, 2006(Barras, , 2015Knowles, 1978:84;Shorrocks, 1999:205;West, 2015). It is likely that this difference is connected to rhoticity: the Lancashire areas have rhoticity or residual rhoticity, which may have a centralizing effect on the choice of vowel.…”

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Towards an updated dialect atlas of British English

MacKenzie

Bailey

Turton

2022

J. of Ling. Geography

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This paper presents the results of a survey of phonological, lexical, and morphosyntactic variation in British English, based on over 14,000 responses. We map twelve variables using geospatial “hotspot” analysis. One of our aims is to document the patterning of under- and unstudied variables. A second aim is to track changes in real time, which we do by comparing our findings to those of the 1950s-era Survey of English Dialects (SED; Orton, 1962). We improve upon previous dialectological work by paying careful attention to the phonemic status of mergers and splits: In our contemporary data, we do this by asking subjects if they have a phonemic contrast; in the SED data, we do this by superimposing the isoglosses for individual phones. We find evidence for both stability and change; we document previously unverified patterns. Perhaps most importantly, we identify a number of directions for future research.

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Lancashire

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Varieties of ‘standard accents’ among teachers in contemporary Britain

Varieties of ‘standard accents’ among teachers in contemporary Britain

Analysis of sounds and spellings based on RP [i:] in the nineteenth-century Lancashire vernacular

Towards an updated dialect atlas of British English

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