commong among young Londoners. Something between RP and Cockney. Some features: · Non-rhotic · They use intrusive / r / · They use the broad / a: / sound · They use glottal stop more often (instead of k/p/t) · Use of / w /, recieved pronouncation will have / l / sound · /l/ may disappear [vunnerable] · /I/ -> /i:/ · Use of question tag [Ain't I? (einnai)] · Yod coalescence when two things come together. Like: /d/ instead of /dj/ /t/ instead of /tj/ [tu:zdeI] · Prolongs diphtongs · H-dropping (Tell him= [tellim]) 5) Cockney, Cockney Rhyming Slang Cockney English has a very distinctive accent, intentionally made and cryptical. It is used in a sense of community and also by traders or criminals to confuse the police. Cockney English is a "working class English" with approx. 7 million speakers. Cocnkey Rhyming Slang is a secret language used for communication in a group (traders speaking to eachother; criminals confusing the police; amusement) in the English
CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF OLD ENGLISH - 15 monophtongs, (7 long, 7 short, 1 central), 4 diphtongs, 17 consonants. Free variaton of R, and it was pronounced everywhere. Very much Germanic in character. Quite some special consonants that no longer exist. About morphology: synthetic with numerous aglutinating tendencies. System of tenses Germanic, but with a reduction of tenses. Paradigmatic leveling; Stress shift; Word order; Loan words (Old Norse, Old French). Dual pronouns. Determiners - no separate definite article. Strong and weak verbs
First studied by Otto Jespersen, who coined the term. The phonetic values of the long vowels form the main difference between the pronunciation of Middle English and Modern English, and the Great Vowel Shift is one of the historical events marking the separation of Middle and Modern English. Originally, these vowels had "continental" values Great Vowel Shift in short (a very simplified account!): Long vowels turned into diphthongs or other long vowels and diphtongs into long vowels. /i:/ into /ai/ /u:/ into /au/ /o:/ into /ou/ /a:/ into /ei/ /e:/ into /i:/ /au/ into /o:/ etc. GVS did not affect short vowels. Causes of the Great Vowel Shift largely a mystery; possible causes: · the mass immigration to the South-East of England after the Black Death. The different dialects and the rise of a standardised middle class in London led to changes in pronunciation, which continued to spread out from that city.
The sound / I / , either alone or in dipthtongs, is said to produce the impression of lightness, airiness, brightness. The fields breathe sweet, the daisises kiss our feet, Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit ... (T.Nashe) The length of vowels is also relevant: long vowels tend to sound more peaceful or more solemn than short ones, which tend to give an impression of quick movement, agitation or triviality. The predominance of long vowels and diphtongs is said to render the sense of slow pace or slowness, heaviness. This assessment of vowel sounds could be backed up by the following fragment: Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright! The bridal of the earth and sky; The dew shall weep thy fall tonight; For thou must die. (G.Herbert) In the following lines, S.T.Coleridge suggests the feeling of the menace of sharp, arid heat partly due to the short vowels: All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun.... Rhyme
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