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English accents

English accents. 5. Statistical analysis. variables: - linguistic e.g. phonological, syntactic, lexical - non-linguistic e.g. class, sex, age, region, ethnicity, style. Can we show associations between linguistic and non-linguistic variables?. e.g. between h-dropping and lower social class.

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English accents

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  1. English accents 5. Statistical analysis

  2. variables:- linguistic e.g. phonological, syntactic, lexical- non-linguistic e.g. class, sex, age, region, ethnicity, style Can we show associations between linguistic and non-linguistic variables? e.g. between h-dropping and lower social class

  3. (h)-0 = zero, no [h] (h)-1 = [h] (h) = h-dropping variants variable in London schoolchildren, 1977: percentage (h)-0

  4. (-ng) (ng)-0 [ŋ] (ng)-1 [n] variants variable Norwich, formal style, percentage [n]

  5. (-ng) (ng)-0 [ŋ] (ng)-1 [n] Norwich, percentage [n]

  6. (ur) in NYC environment: _C only variants: [ɜɪ], [ɝ] Labov 1966 percentage of [ɜɪ]

  7. (ou) in Milton Keynes GOAT words =100% (ou)-0 [o:, oU] (ou)-1 [6U, 6Uã] (ou)-2 [{ÞY] (ou)-3 [{I] NB effects of rounding

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