Estuary English developed as a mixture of Cockney and Received Pronunciation accents. It is influenced by both working class London accents and middle class accents. Research has found Estuary English exhibits some Cockney vowel pronunciations and features like 't' glottalization but lacks features like 'h' dropping. Studies of London teenagers' accents in different areas found regional variation, suggesting Estuary English is not fully uniform. Accent change also reflects societal diversity as seen in urban accents influenced by communities like Caribbean, African, Indian, Arabic and others.
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Right Hemisphere,
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Major Types of Aphasia,
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Broca’s aphasia,
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Brain and language,
neurolinguistics,
Brain science or neuroscience,
Interesting brain facts,
Parts of the brain,
How the two sides process information,
Left Hemisphere,
Right Hemisphere,
Aphasia,
Major Types of Aphasia,
Non-Fluent Aphasia,
Fluent Aphasia,
Broca’s aphasia,
Broca’s aphasia as a syntactic disorder,
Wernicke's aphasia,
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2. INTRO TO ESTUARY ENGLISH
• EE was a term devised by linguist David
Rosewarne:
‘EE is a mixture of non-regional and local SouthEastern English pronunciation and intonation. It
refers to the cockney-influenced accent, which has
come to be identified with the Thames Estuary –
Essex, North Kent, and the capital itself’
3. THE EE SCALE
Cockney
Estuary English
EE is ‘between Cockney and the Queen, (Rosewarne
1994: 3) Therefore it is the version of London accent
that excludes multi-cultural influences.
RP
4. • Oxford Dictionary of New words’ definition:
WHAT IS EE?
'It may now be regarded as fashionable among certain
popular comedians, pop and rock musicians, and
presenters of television programmes for the young’
But what about Cockney?
• Cockney isn’t dying out
• Dr Laura Wright believes that it is moving to towns on
the outskirts of London.
5. ESTUARY ENGLISH: A NEW
STANDARD ACCENT?
Upper middle classes “talking down” as well as lower middle classes “talking
up” - David Crystal - Londoners moving into the suburbs and coming into
contact with RP – the results of greater social mobility after the 80s.
Influential: heard in House of Commons, business, media, advertising
(Kerswill)
Due to this it became very widespread and took over from RP by number of
speakers. (Trudgill (2001) estimates RP to be spoken by 3% of the population).
It is important to note that Estuary English is an ACCENT and is usually
accompanied by the use of Standard English.
6. SOME PHONOLOGICAL
FEATURES OF EE
• /t/-glottallisation - substitution of /t/ for [Ɂ] in words such as
butter.
• TH-fronting -/f/ for /th/: thing, and /v/ for /th/: brother
• Some ‘cockney’ vowels (Landan; Maaf)
• No h-dropping
• /l/ replaced by /w/ - known as ‘l’ vocalisation, e.g. for ‘people’ and ‘milk’.
Instead of ‘l’, ‘w’ might be used in EE - can be used as many as four times
in the utterance: 'Bill will build the wall‘
• yod-dropping as in [nuz] for news
7. SOME RESEARCH INTO ESTUARY
•
Prof. Harrington studied changes in the Queen’s English from the 50s to the 90s.
•
"The Queen's Christmas broadcasts were ideal for addressing this issue. Firstly they have been annual for a
long period of time; secondly the Queen's accent is obviously not going to be influenced by geographical
changes; thirdly any changes we observe are not going to be influenced by changes to style and content of
the messages, because these have been quite consistent throughout."
•
His team compared the royal vowels of the 1950s and 1980s. They found that in each case the Queen's
accent had drifted towards the vowels of the younger generation.
•
The Queen’s vowels changed dramatically from the ones in the 50s. However could we really call it Estuary?
•
"We are all familiar with the change that has taken place in the vowels of words like 'that man' where, in the
1930s, we still had something like 'thet men,' " said Jonathan Wells, professor of linguistics at University
College London. "She is only following along trends that exist in any case. She still remains well behind them,
shall we say, and of course she still sounds upper-class, the way she always did."
8. PRZEDLACKA’S RESEARCH
• Joanna Przedlacka’s study is not concerned with issues such as the question of
whether Estuary English will be the future pronunciation standard, or with the
problem of its alleged prestige.
• The research project (Przedlacka 1999) was aimed at testing whether EE is one
phenomenon spreading across London.
• One-to-one interviews were carried out with 16 adolescents (8 girls, 8 boys; aged
14-16). Such choice of informants reflected a fact well established in sociolinguistic
research that the middle teenage years is a period especially productive for
innovations. What concept does this refer to?
• All the subjects were natives or newcomers to the locality within their first 5 years
of life. None had attended elocution lessons or suffered any speech impediments.
This study was done in 4 different localities of London.
9. CONCLUSIONS
The examination of the phonetic make up of the variety revealed that the extent
of geographical variability between the localities allows one to conclude that we
are still dealing with a number of distinct accents. The existence of a clearly
definable uniform variety seems doubtful. However, as the regional accents of
the Southeast indeed reveal a weaker presence of old regional variants, it is
plausible that the levelling tendencies are at work. At this stage however, the
differences between the four localities are still quite sharp.
10. KERSWILL: DIALECT LEVELLING
Kerswill (2000) investigated ten speech sounds that had different
pronunciations in the Milton Keynes area. One of these variables was:
• (ou) the diphthong vowel in coat, moan, etc. The second part of this
diphthong can be 'fronted' (pronounced further forward in the
mouth), to give the impression of received pronunciation 'kite' or
'mine’
11. METHODOLOGY
• The study focused on 48 children from three of the main new town
developments near the town centre: 16 four-year-olds, 16 eight-years-olds
and 16 twelve-year-olds.
• The children were either born in Milton Keynes or had arrived there by the
age of two and each group of 16 children were equally divided between
the sexes.
• The children were interviewed by Ann Williams who set tasks to get them
talking. She also interviewed one caregiver for each child to see if there
was a difference between the child’s and the adult’s accent.
• The recordings were divided into two main sections:
(i) elicitation tasks, using quizzes, 'spot-the-difference' pictures and map
reading tasks, and
(ii) spontaneous speech, obtained by interviewing the children about their
school, friends and homes and by making recordings in the playground
using radio microphones.
12. FINDINGS
• The children on average 'front' their vowels considerably more than the
adults, suggesting that the fronted vowel is likely to be a characteristic of
the new Milton Keynes dialect.
• In girls, the oldest girls have the greatest degree of fronting, with the
younger ones having scores similar to those of the caregivers. This suggests
that the younger ones have similar accents to their caregivers whereas
older ones have moved away.
• The speech of older children (around the age of 12) quite closely
represents the characteristics of the new 'speech community' which is
developing in Milton Keynes
13. TOWER HAMLETS
• In her Tower Hamlets study Fox showed that it wasn’t only JC that was
influencing MLE, but also other cultures depending on the main cultural
community in the area. In Tower Hamlets this was mainly the influence of the
Bangladeshi community (35% of the community).
14. PROFESSOR DAVID CRYSTAL
• "Over the last 50 years or so we have seen an increasing cultural
diversification across the country. Accents are a reflection of society and as
society changes so accents change.
• "We need to look for accent change where society is evolving and this means
that we are seeing far more urban accents in places such as Liverpool and
Cardiff than ever before. For example, in Liverpool as well as the traditional
Scouse accent you will hear distinct Caribbean-Scouse, African-Scouse as well
as Indian-Scouse accents. In Cardiff I've heard a number of accent mixes that
weren't previously heard before such as Cardiff-Arabic and Cardiff-Hindi. This
pattern is repeating itself in many urban communities across the UK, people
are especially keen to develop a strong sense of local identity."
15. MICK ORD
• Mick Ord, BBC Voices Project Director adds: "The only language that doesn't
change is a dead language. English language is changing all the time and no
more so than today with new influences and young people of many ethnic
backgrounds mixing together in our inner cities. It is fascinating to discover
how much the 'Tower Hamlets effect' is happening in other parts of the UK."