Estuary English - A Controversial Issue?
Altendorf 1997: London Project (1)
Altendorf's study was conducted in London. The adolescent informants, born and
brought up in Greater London, were aged 9 and 14, and at the time of the study were
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
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