Accent Key Words

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Accent
The way that people pronounce sounds.
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Descriptivism
The belief that correctness is dependent on context and should be defined by what is appropriate in any context. Descriptivists take their norms from observing what the majority do, not what any authority says they should do.
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Distribution
Where a feature is used, within the language inventory of an individual or group.
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Inventory
A list of items. For example, in phonology, a list of the sounds used in a person's accent.
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Non-regional
An alternative name for the RP accent.
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Non-standard
Different from normal or majority usage.
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Phonetic alphabet
An alphabet designed for transcribing sounds of all the world's languages.
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Prescriptivism
The belief that there is an absolute authority determining what is correct usage; that correctness is something absolute and unchangeable, based on rules established in the past.
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Standard
Used or accepted as normal or average. In language study, socially agreed usage that is familiar to most language users.
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Rhotic
Accents where speakers produce the post-vocalic /r/, such as in many rural accents in the south-west region of the UK.
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Covert prestige
Status gained from peer group recognition rather than public acknowledgement.
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Esturary English
A recent accent variety used in south east England which combines RP with some aspects of regional southern accents.
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Glottal stop
A closure of the vocal chords. This can be used to replace /t/ in some regional accents.
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Linguistic variable
An item of language that is likely to vary and is therefore of interest to sociolinguists.
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Multicultural London English
A recent variety combining elements of the language of different ethnic groups, particularly Afro-Caribbean English.
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Overt prestige
Status that is publicly acknowledged.
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Self-reported usage
People describing their own language use (as opposed to being recorded using language.
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Dialect levelling
The way in which dialect terms have been dropping out of us.
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Isogloss
A geographic boundary indicating where certain items of language are used.
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Slang
Language that is used in informal contexts and widely recognised.
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Determiner
Help to determine what a noun refers to. Can be wide ranging in their reference, including quantity (some, many), definiteness (the, a), possession (my, our), and demonstrativeness (these, those).
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Preposition
A word that typically indicates a direction, position, or relationship such as 'into', 'on', or 'of'.
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Progressive form
The 'ing' ending in words such as 'walking' and 'running' indicating ongoing activity.
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Relativiser
Another word for a relative pronoun, for example, 'which', 'who', 'that', often used at the front of a subordinate clause.
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Matched guise technique
An experimental technique where a single actor puts on a different accent for different audiences, put keeps the content of the speech the same.
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Eye dialect
Using the regular alphabet to represent sounds, rather than a phonetic or phonemic alphabet.
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The belief that correctness is dependent on context and should be defined by what is appropriate in any context. Descriptivists take their norms from observing what the majority do, not what any authority says they should do.

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Descriptivism

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Where a feature is used, within the language inventory of an individual or group.

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A list of items. For example, in phonology, a list of the sounds used in a person's accent.

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Card 5

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An alternative name for the RP accent.

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