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Sue Fox + (Paul Kuswell) - Ethnic Youth Dialect
MLE is identified with by adolescent users in the wider city environment of greater London - and is gaining ground in other large UK cities like Bristol and Birmingham
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Mark Sebba (1993) - London Jamaican
London Jamaican is often linked to BBE and has been identified as main language choice of young, new-genertion speakers brought up in London's Carribean community It lies between Carribean creole forms and Cockney forms.
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Viv Edwards (1986) - Jamaican English in West Midlands
English is the official language of the former British West Indies, therefore, African-Caribbean immigrants had few communication difficulties upon arrival in Britain compared to immigrants from other regions
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Devyani Sharma and Lavanya Sankaran (2011) - Punjabi Indian English in West London
The researchers focussed on the pronunciation of /t/, which has a distinctive local pronunciation as well as a South Asian pronunciation. The local London pronunciation of /t/ is glottalised.
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Code switching
The ability to move between different types of language in order to suit the needs of your interlocutor
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William Labov - Prestige
Prestige can be seperated into 'overt prestige' ans 'covert prestige'. Both are used when changing speech to gain prestige - appearing to have a high reputation/standing/sucess etc - but do so in different ways
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Gary Ives, Bradford (2014)
- Study in schools in Bradford and London. Young people make a conscious choice about the language they use. Students distinguished themselves from those they termed 'freshies', meaning those born in Pakistan and described as British Asians
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Ben Rompton (2010)
Creole was widely seen cool, tough and good to use. It was associated with assertiveness, verbal resourcefulness, competence in heterosexual relationships and opposition to authority
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Roger Hewitt (1986) and Mark Sebba (1993)
Work by these two identified a new development in the late 1980s, that of 'black cockney' - a style rather than a discrete variety - used by young black speakers in London
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John Pitts (2012)
Noticed a difference shift in young black English speakers who felt that mainstream society was ignoring and constraining them. They moved towards a resistance identity through language
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Jenny Cheshire (2008)
Identified a new form of English (predominantly among young people) from London's inner city and taking root far beyond: Multicultural London English. Later renamed Multicultural Urban English
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Mark Sebba (1993) - London Jamaican

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London Jamaican is often linked to BBE and has been identified as main language choice of young, new-genertion speakers brought up in London's Carribean community It lies between Carribean creole forms and Cockney forms.

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Viv Edwards (1986) - Jamaican English in West Midlands

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Devyani Sharma and Lavanya Sankaran (2011) - Punjabi Indian English in West London

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Code switching

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