Estuary English - A Controversial Issue?
attending a moderately expensive, private day school located in a middle-class area,
close to a working class area. The students came from lower-middle to middlemiddle
class backgrounds. The experiment involved: 1 junior schoolboy, 6 senior schoolgirls,
and 6 senior schoolboys (but 4 teenagers were discussed in the available paper).
Adults between 45 and 55 years of age were also recorded.
Conclusions:
Altendorf (1999a) concludes that /t/-glottaling and /l/-vocalisation are characteristic
of EE, but they `are not exclusive enough to define Estuary English as a distinct
variety'.
Przedlacka 1997/1998: the Home Counties Project
The sociophonetic study of teenage speech in the Home Counties conducted by
Przedlacka, contained the diachronic and the synchronic dimensions. The data from
(1) `Estuary English' speakers and the informants included in The Survey of English
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