2020
DOI: 10.1017/s0266078420000280
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Style-shifting in Multicultural London English in an all-girls homework club

Abstract: This study investigated whether and how pre-adolescent girls style-shift in Multicultural London English (MLE), a variety of English that is relatively new and potentially still changing. We looked at the extent to which five 11-year-old girls in a homework club in East London, where MLE is spoken, changed their pronunciations in different speech contexts. The results showed that the girls did indeed change their pronunciations in the different contexts (i.e. they style-shifted), and that the patterns of style… Show more

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“…Holmes–Elliott, 2015) while the other variants are part of Diphthong Shift, an extension of the Great Vowel Shift, which has been described for the South East of England (cf. Wells, 1982b; Williams & Kerswill, 1999; Kerswill, Torgerson & Fox, 2008; Holmes–Elliott, 2015; Oxbury & de Leeuw, 2020). The predominant form for Sussex in the SED is [ɛʊ] (cf.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Holmes–Elliott, 2015) while the other variants are part of Diphthong Shift, an extension of the Great Vowel Shift, which has been described for the South East of England (cf. Wells, 1982b; Williams & Kerswill, 1999; Kerswill, Torgerson & Fox, 2008; Holmes–Elliott, 2015; Oxbury & de Leeuw, 2020). The predominant form for Sussex in the SED is [ɛʊ] (cf.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%