Word intital H-dropping correlates with class and speakers of higher social classes h-drop less frequently than speakers from lower social classes.
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What are some examples?
'ere and here
'ad and had
'ospital and hospital
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When was Labov's Martha's Vineyard?
1961
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What did it suggest?
Local fisherman resisted pressures for phonological change in order to maintain social identity
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What is an example?
Tendency to use diphthongs more like /au/ and /ai/
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When was Smith's Cockney Evaluation?
1979
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What did it suggest?
Opinions about the cockney accent included that it was “unintelligent, unattractive and unkind”
and these were opinions thought to be held by the influential people in society.
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What did cockney speakers give their accent?
Low scores
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When was Giles' Matched Guise Experiment?
1987
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What did it suggest?
RP speakers were considered to have a more convincing argument than the 'Brummie' accent
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What were the student's attitudes to RP speakers?
Believed to be 'unfriendly, insincere and unsociable but they also believed to be 'reliable, confident, well educated and capable
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Why did the students switch back to the 'brummie' accent after a week?
believed the regional accent conveyed honesty and believed the RP accent to be "boring"; it did not revel any sense of a social background or personality trait
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When was Ferguson's theory?
1959
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What did it suggest?
When two varieties are used with different functions in a speech community
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What are the two varieties?
A high variety for formal encounters and a low variety for informal encounters
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What's an example of this?
A speaker might use Multicultural London English with friends, and standard English in the workplace.
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Word intital H-dropping correlates with class and speakers of higher social classes h-drop less frequently than speakers from lower social classes.
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