Through a process called dialect levelling, accents and dialects are becoming more and more similar.
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Howard Giles
Matched guise experiment found that speakers of RP were judged as:
Intelligent
Trustworthy
Unfriendly
Unsociable
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Montgomery
RP is used in adverts for technical descriptions. Regional accents are used for other things, particularly food.
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Peter Trudgill
The archaic forms of the second person pronouns, thee and thou are still used in Yorkshire.
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Mahoney Et Al
Guilt experiment: Students were played recording of fake police interviews of suspects with different accents. Brummie accents were likely to be judged as guilty.
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Accent
How you say something.
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Dialect
The words you use.
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G-dropping
The word-final /g/ sound gets dropped.
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H-dropping
The word-initial /h/ sound gets dropped.
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Received Pronunciation (RP)
An accent which is typically described as 'posh'. It's association with the Queen and the BBC lead it to be viewed as correct.
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Brummie
Speakers who use a Birmingham accent.
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Card 2
Front
Matched guise experiment found that speakers of RP were judged as:
Intelligent
Trustworthy
Unfriendly
Unsociable
Back
Howard Giles
Card 3
Front
RP is used in adverts for technical descriptions. Regional accents are used for other things, particularly food.
Back
Card 4
Front
The archaic forms of the second person pronouns, thee and thou are still used in Yorkshire.
Back
Card 5
Front
Guilt experiment: Students were played recording of fake police interviews of suspects with different accents. Brummie accents were likely to be judged as guilty.
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