English After RP Standard British Pronunciation Today /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Lindsey, Geoff (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Linguistics.; English language.; Phonology.; Sociolinguistics.; Linguistic change.; Language and languages-Study and teaching.; Popular Science in Linguistics.; English.; Phonology and Phonetics.; Language Change.; Language Teaching.

This book concisely describes ways in which today's standard British English speech differs from the upper-class accent of the last century, Received Pronunciation, which many now find old-fashioned or even comic. In doing so it provides a much-needed update to the existing RP-based description...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction: What was RP?
• Part I. Changes: General observations
• Chapter 1. The power of writing
• Chapter 2. The special relationship
• Chapter 3. Getting stronger
• Part II. Vowels
• Chapter 4. The anti-clockwise vowel shift
• Chapter 5. FLEECE, GOOSE and other diphthongs
• Chapter 6. GOAT, GOOSE and FOOT backing
• Chapter 7. A LOT more common
• Chapter 8. KIT - still going strong (but happY never existed)
• Chapter 9. FOOT - even rarer, but still common!
• Chapter 10. Weak vowel merger
• Chapter 11. Two kinds of BATH
• Chapter 12. PRICE and MOUTH
• Chapter 13. The decline of the centring diphthongs
• Part III. Consonants
• Chapter 14. More aspiration (and affrication)
• Chapter 15. /tʃ/ and /dʒ/ - a new si-chew-ation
• Chapter 16. /tʃ/ and /dʒ/ - a new chrend
• Chapter 17. Epen-t-thesis
• Chapter 18. Syllabic consonants - a little less certain
• Chapter 19. Glottal stops, part 1
• Chapter 20. Is /l/ following /r/?
• Chapter 21. G-dropping and H-dropping
• Chapter 22. Fings to come?
• Part IV. Stress
• Chapter 23. The love of alternating stress
• Chapter 24. Westwards toward America?
• Part V. Connected speech
• Chapter 25. Linking /r/
• Chapter 26. Glottal stops, part 2
• Chapter 27. Vocal fry
• Part VI. Intonation
• Chapter 28. Falls
• Chapter 29. Yes-no questions
• Chapter 30. Continuation patterns
• Chapter 31. Uptalk
• Part VII. Mini Dictionary.