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Môn học: Lịch sử phát triển Tiếng Anh
Full name: Nguyễn Hùng SơnDate of birth: 29/09/1981Class: FVC319
Đề 5: What are some typical characteristics of English
dialects in England?
In this article, we will talk about some typicalcharacteristics of English dialects in England The threemajor division of dialects of English in England areclassified as Southern English dialects, Midlands Englishdialects, Northern English dialects An important featureof English regional accents in the bundle of isoglosses,which separated different pronunciation and grammar indifferent areas Accents throughout Britain are influencedby the phoneme inventory of regional dialects, and nativeEnglish speakers can often tell quite precisely.
1.Southern England
In general, Southern English accents aredistinguished from Northern English accents primarily bynot using the short /a/ in words such as “bath”.
In south east, the broad /a/ is normally used beforea /f/ /s/ …
Trang 2They pronounce “cast” by /ka:st/ instead of /kæst/In South-west, an /a/ sound in used in these wordsbut also in words that is /æ/ in RP
Famous speakers include Lord Nelson and KeithSkipper.
- As in the North, Midlands accents generally do notuse a broad A, so that “cast” is pronounced /kəst/ ratherthan the /kɑ:st/ pronunciation of most southern accents.
- Midlands speech also generally uses the northernshort /u/, so “putt” is pronounced the same as “put”.
- “old” and “cold” may be pronounced as “owd” and“cowd” And in northern midlands, “home” can become“wom”
4.Northern England
a.General features of Northern England
There are several accent features in NorthernEngland.
Trang 3- The “short a” vowel of “cat” is pronounced [ə]rather than the [æ].
- The accents of Northern England generally do notuse a /α:/
- Northern English tends not to have /Δ/
In most areas, the letter y on the end of words ispronounced /i/ For example: happy, city…
In Yorkshire, Wuthering Heights is one of the fewclassic works of English literatures to contain asubstantial amount of dialect This dialect was still spokenaround Haworth until the late 1970s, but there is nowonly a minority of it still in everyday use.
c.Middlesbrough area
The accents for Middlesbrough and the surroundingtowns are sometimes grouped with Yorkshire andsometimes grouped with North – East of England, for theyshare characteristics with both
Some examples of traits that are shared withYorkshire include:
Trang 4- Northern – East England
o Dialects in this region are often known asMackem or Geordie The dialects across theregion are broadly similar, however somedifferences do exist.
o A feature of the North East accent, shared withScots and Irish English, is the pronunciation ofthe consonant cluster – lm in coda position.
- Liverpool, Lancashire, and Cumbria are also thedialects of the Northern England and they have their owncharacteristics.
In short, there are many different accents anddialects across the UK and people are often very proud oftheir local accent or dialect, with a lot of prejudiceinvolved.