English Accents and Dialects

Liverpool English (Scouse)

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Sangster, C. (2001) Lenition of Alveolar Stops in Liverpool English. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 5(3), 401-412. [link to article]

Online resources for accents and dialects

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English Accents and Dialects at the British Library
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/dialects/

BBC Routes to English
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/routesofenglish/world/index_noflash.shtml

English Intonation in the British Isles
The IViE Corpus
http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/old_IViE/

Dialects of English
Offers links to web resources.
www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~ling80/wwwlinks

English Dialect Links
Directory of sites about how English is spoken in various parts of the world.
www.evolpub.com/Americandialects/EngDialLnx.html

Sound Comparisons: Accents of English From Around the World
Features sound samples and pronunciation guides for English dialects from around the world and throughout history.
www.soundcomparisons.com

Linguistic Atlas Projects
Details on studies of regional linguistic patterns in the U.S.
http://us.english.uga.edu/

International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA)
Repository of primary source recordings of English spoken in regional dialects and accents.
www.ukans.edu/~idea

Dublin & Middlesbrough

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Jones, M. J. & Llamas, C. (2008) Fricated realisations of /t/ in Dublin and Middlesbrough English: an acoustic analysis of plosive frication and surface fricative contrasts. English Language and Linguistics 12(3), 419-443.

Relativization in Newcastle and Sheffield

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Beal, J.C. and Corrigan, K.P. ‘A Tale of Two Dialects: Relativization in Newcastle and Sheffield. In: Filppula, M, Klemola, J, Palander, M. and Penttilä, E, ed. Dialects Across Borders: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XI), Joensuu, August 2002. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2005, pp. 211-229.

Phonology of Northern English

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Beal, Joan. 2004. ‘The Phonology of English Dialects in the North of England’ in Kortmann, B. (ed.) A Handbook of Varieties of English. Berlin: Mouton.

Northern English: A Social and Cultural History

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Wales, Katie. 2006. Northern English: A Social and Cultural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Received Pronunciation

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Bauer, L. 1985. Tracing change in the received pronunciation of British English. Journal of Phonetics 13:61-81.

Milton Keynes, Reading, Hull

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Williams, Ann & Kerswill, Paul (1999). Dialect levelling: change and continuity in Milton Keynes, Reading and Hull. In Paul Foulkes & Gerard Docherty (eds.) Urban voices. Accent studies in the British Isles. London: Arnold. 141-162.

Buckie

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Smith, J. & Tagliamonte, S. (1998) ‘“We was all thegither, I think we were all thegither”: Was regularization in Buckie English’. World Englishes 17:2 105-26.

Durham

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Kerswill, Paul (1987). Levels of linguistic variation in Durham. Journal of Linguistics 23: 25-49. [Link to article]

Buckie

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Smith, J. (2001) ‘“Ye ø na hear that kind o’ things”: Negative do in Buckie’. English World Wide 21:2 231-259.

History of Scots

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Corbett, J., McClure, D. and Stuart-Smith, J. (2003), 'Introduction: A brief history of Scots', in Corbett, J., McClure, D., and Stuart-Smith, J. (eds) (2003), Edinburgh Student Companion to Scots, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1-16

The phonology of Modern Scots

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Stuart-Smith, J. (2003), 'The phonology of Modern Urban Scots', in Corbett, J., McClure, D., and Stuart-Smith, J. (eds) (2003), Edinburgh Student Companion to Scots, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 110-37

Scots

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Corbett, J., McClure, D., and Stuart-Smith, J. (eds) (2003), Edinburgh Student Companion to Scots, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Lancashire

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Hollmann, Willem B. & Anna Siewierska (2006). Corpora and (the need for) other methods in a study of Lancashire dialect. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 54:203-216. [Link to article]

Barnsley

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Jones, M. J. (2007). “Glottals and grammar: definite article reduction and morpheme boundaries.” Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics 12. [Download article]

Middlesbrough

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Snell, Julia (2007) ‘Give us my shoe back’: the pragmatic functions of singular 'us'. Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics, 12 . pp. 44-60. [Download article]

Berwick

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Watt, D. & Ingham, C. (2000). Durational evidence of the Scottish Vowel Length Rule in Berwick English. Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics & Phonetics 8: 205-228.

Newcastle and Derby

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Milroy, L., Milroy, J., Docherty, G.J., Foulkes, P. & Walshaw, D. (1999) Phonological variation and change in contemporary English: evidence from Newcastle upon Tyne and Derby. In Conde Silvestre, J.C. & Hernandez-Campoy, J.M. (eds.) Variation and Linguistic Change in English. University of Murcia. pp. 35-46.

Docherty, G.J. & Foulkes, P. (1999) Newcastle upon Tyne and Derby: instrumental phonetics and variationist studies. In Foulkes, P. & Docherty, G.J. (eds.) Urban Voices: Accent Studies in the British Isles. London: Arnold. pp. 47-71.

Newcastle

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Watt, D. (2002). 'I don't speak with a Geordie accent, I speak, like, the Northern accent': contact-induced levelling in the Tyneside vowel system. Journal of Sociolinguistics 6(1): 44-63.

Watt, D. & Allen, W. (2003). Illustrations of the IPA: Tyneside English. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 33(2): 267-271.

Foulkes, P., Docherty, G.J. & Watt, D. (2005). Phonological variation in child-directed speech. Language 81(1): 177-206.

Watt, D., Docherty, G.J., & Foulkes, P. (2003). First accent acquisition: a study of phonetic variation in child-directed speech. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, August 2003. 1959-1962.

Foulkes, P., Docherty, G.J. & Watt, D. (2001). The emergence of structured variation. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 7(3): 67-84.

Watt, D. (2000). Phonetic parallels between the close-mid vowels of Tyneside English: are they internally or externally motivated? Language Variation and Change 12(1): 69-101.

Foulkes, P., Docherty, G. & Watt, D. (1999). Tracking the emergence of structured variation: realisations of (t) by Newcastle children. Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics & Phonetics 7: 1-25.

Watt, D. (1999). Phonetic variation in two Tyneside vowels: levelling in lockstep. Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, August 1999. Berkeley, Ca.: University of California. 1621-1624.

Watt, D. (1996). Out of the frying pan into the fire: remerger of Tyneside (3)? Newcastle & Durham Working Papers in Linguistics 4: 299-314.

Watt, D. & Milroy, L. (1999). Variation in three Tyneside vowels: is this dialect levelling? In Docherty, G.J. & Foulkes, P. (eds.) Urban Voices: Accent Studies in the British Isles. London: Arnold. 25-46.

Docherty, G.J. & Foulkes, P. (2005) Glottal variants of (t) in the Tyneside variety of English: an acoustic profiling study. In Hardcastle, W & Mackenzie Beck, J. (eds.) A Figure of Speech – a Festschrift for John Laver. London: Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. 173-199.

Aberdeen

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Watt, D. & Yurkova, J. (2007). Voice Onset Time and the Scottish Vowel Length Rule in Aberdeen English. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrücken, August 2007.

Bradford

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Watt, D. & Tillotson, J. (2001). A spectrographic analysis of vowel fronting in Bradford English. English World-Wide 22(2): 269-302.

Sunderland

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Burbano Elizondo, L. (2003) ‘First approaches to the unexplored dialect of Sunderland’. Miscelánea 27: 51-68.

Burbano-Elizondo, L. (2003) ‘Mackem: the Urban dialect of Sunderland’. Deligianni, E. and Goglia, F. (eds.) Papers in Linguistics from the University of Manchester proceedings of the 12th Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics, March 2003.University of Manchester: pp. 15-28

Burbano-Elizondo, L. (2006) ‘Regional variation and identity in Sunderland’. In White, G. and Omoniyi, T. (eds) The Sociolinguistics of Identity. Continuum.

Middlesbrough English

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Llamas, C. (2007) ‘A place between places’: language and identities in a border town’ Language in Society, 36(4) 579-604.

Llamas, C. (2006) Shifting identities and orientations in a border town. In Omoniyi, Tope & Goodith White (eds) Sociolinguistics of Identity. London: Continuum. 92-112.

Jones, M. J. & Llamas, C. (2003) Fricated pre-aspirated /t/ in Middlesbrough English: an acoustic study. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. 123-135.

Liverpool English (Scouse) resources

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Knowles, G. (1973) Scouse: the urban dialect of Liverpool. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Leeds.

Honeybone, P. (2001) Lenition inhibition in Liverpool English. English Language and Lingusitics, 5, 213-249. [link to article]

Watson, K. (2007) Liverpool English. Journal of the International Phonetics Association, 37/3, 351-360. [link to article]

Watson, K. (2006) Phonological resistance and innovation in the North-West of England. English Today 22/2. 55-61 [link to article]

Watson, K. (2008). Is Scouse getting Scouser? Exploring phonological change in contemporary Liverpool English. In Grant, A. & Grey C. (eds) The Mersey Sound: Liverpool's Language, People and Places. Liverpool: Open House Press, 215-241.