In consonants

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 389.

In vowels

In consonants.

Some English accents are ‘rhotic' or ‘r-ful' and other are non-rhotic or ‘r-less'. Rhotic accents are those which actually pronounce [r], corresponding to orthographic ‘r' in words like bar, farm.

In most regional accents the glottal stop is more widely used than in RP. In some areas, especially the north-east of England, East Anglia and Northern Ireland, the glottal stop may also pronounced simultaneously with voiceless [p, t, k] most strikingly between vowels. Many non-RP speakers use [n] int eh suffix ‘-ing' instead of [ ].

Southern English Accents. Educated Southern speech is very much near-RP accent whereas non-standard accents are very much near Cockney. It has been long established that Cockney is a social accent – the speech of working-class areas of the great London.

1. [ ] is realized as [ae]

2. [ae] is realized as [ ] or [ ]

1. [i] in word-final position sounds as [I:]
2. the diphthong [ei] is realized as [aei] or [ai]
3. RP [ ] sounds as [ ]
4. RP [ ] sounds as [ ]

1. [h] in unstressed position is almost invariably absent
2. the contrast between [O] and [f] is completely lost.
3. the contrast between [ ] and [v] is occasionally lost.
4. when [ ] occurs initially it is either dropped or replaced by [d].
5. [p, t, k,] are heavily aspirated.
6. [t] is affricated, [s] is heard before the vowel.

Northern accents

The countries of northern England are not far from the Scottish bored, so the influence of Scotch accent is noticeable, though there are of course many features of pronunciation characteristic only of northern English regions. The most typical representative of the speech of this area is Newcastle accent.