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Prejudice about regional accents is still prevalent in Britain

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Prejudice about regional accents is still prevalent in Britain

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Professor Scott (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) said: "We sound the way we do for a whole range of reasons - cultural, emotional, social - and we tend to judge other people's accents on the same basis."
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Why do some accents sound better than others?

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Why do some accents sound better than others?

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Our associations have a bearing on whether we feel some accents sound better than others.

Experiences impact our attitudes. If we have (or hear of someone we know having) a negative or positive experience of someone from a particular town or city, we subconsciously connect those good or bad feelings with certain features, such as their accent. When we later hear that accent, this can trigger those feelings and make us attribute them to anyone who talks in that way.
http://theconversation.com/why-do-some-accents-sound-better-than-others-77732

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A considerable amount of research has been done to find out why people have such strong opinions about accents. One of the key methods that dialectologists use is to play lots of different regional accents to people who come from a range of locations. The listeners rate the voices they hear on a scale according to, for example, how educated or friendly the speakers sound to them. Listeners typically get to judge speakers on competence and status traits, like intelligence and self-confidence, as well as social attractiveness traits, such as friendliness and sincerity.

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However, words are not necessarily unique to one location – dialect tends to turn up in different locations. A common example is that words and phrases that originated in Scotland often appear in Northern Ireland because of the strong historical connections between the two places.

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A standard dialect is simply one local variety of a language which has become most publicly accepted in social institutions such as the media, the law and government. In many Anglophone countries, the dialect spoken by most of the population is considered to be standard, such as Standard American or Standard Australian English. In the UK, however, the so-called standard – known as RP or the Queen’s English – is spoken natively by less than 3%. Yet, it’s unreasonable to suppose most Britons are speaking their own language incorrectly.

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British regional accents 'still thriving'

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British regional accents 'still thriving'

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Forecasts have suggested accents would disappear and merge into a national way of speaking, albeit with some class and regional variations.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6927109/British-regional-accents-still-thriving.html

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Dialects and accents have all gone south

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Dialects and accents have all gone south

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The days when a linguist might be able to tell someone’s birthplace from the way the word they used for a small piece of wood caught beneath the skin have ended as English dialects have merged.https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/jack-malvern

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Pamela Duncan and Josh Holder - The Guardian

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Pamela Duncan and Josh Holder - The Guardian

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People are convinced that dialect is dying out but there is actually a lot of continuity due to people wanting to keep

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UK accents: it's not what you say, it's how you say it

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UK accents: it's not what you say, it's how you say it

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Accents define us the moment we meet others. They pass on information about our lives – where we are from, our age and even our parents’ histories – and they form an identity that gives us immediate membership to an oral tribe. Often this information we are transmitting does nothing other than inform the listener, but what if the way we speak really could change the path of our lives?ihttps://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/uk-accents-not-what-you-say-how-you-say-it

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Helen Ashton and Sarah Shepherd - British Council

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Helen Ashton and Sarah Shepherd - British Council

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It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. People are more drawn to accents with connotations of wealth and these accents have more opportunities in society

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Accents create variety in speech and form part of our rich cultural heritage, like forms of history and diversity that we can hear. But they are also a form of history in the making. As younger generations discover all that speech has to offer, they claim its expressivity for their own, with new words being created in schools up and down the country.

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Northern accents more diverse as

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Dialect levelling in Glasgow - regional accents dialects are joining with big cities

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People maintain regional dialect - even on social media - not just a spoken thing.

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Jonnie Robinson
Even though language is changing there is some continuity.
Language is evolving in a good way.

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Using the matched-guide approach found that listeners hearing arguments about capital punishment more convincing if delivered in a socially prestigious accent

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Does accent really hinder your job? - specific accents have certain stereotypes

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Ugliness View: Some accents don't sound nice. This seems to be linked to stereotypes and negative social connotat

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Richard saville-british regional accents still thriving

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Richard saville-british regional accents still thriving

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6927109/British-regional-accents-still-thriving.html

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Other factors influence language use, too. One of them is social class. Very many local accents are now associated with working-class speakers, while middle and upper-class speakers tend to use a more standardised English. But this is a relatively recent development. Indeed, until the standardisation of English from the 16th century – when one variety of English came to be used in official situations and by printing presses for the wider publication of books – it was acceptable for speakers of different social classes to speak and write in their own dialects. Then, Latin and French were regarded as prestigious languages, applied by the elite in education, law and literature

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Dialects and accents developed historically when groups of language users lived in relative isolation, without regular contact with other people using the same language. This was more pronounced in the past due to the lack of fast transport and mass media. People tended to hear only the language used in their own location, and when their language use changed (as language by its nature always evolves) their dialect and accent adopted a particular character, leading to national, regional and local variation.

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Accents define us - tell people about their lives - determine how intelligent / attractive you are
R.P tends to give people the best start in life
R.P accents deemed more intelligent

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Our accents are under threat: dialects may die as computers strip the beauty from language

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Regional accents are getting stronger as people want to keep identity

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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dialects-and-accents-have-all-gone-south-fn0wghxbx

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Accents may die out by 2066 due to computers 

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Accents may die out by 2066 due to computers 

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Wired
Voice control and communications in standard English may make regional accents die out in the next few decades, technical developments will also make coinage occur rapidly, with the introduction of new words mean while accents will die out vocabulary will increase in the UK.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/dialect-english-regional-accents

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Kiera

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Jonnie Robinson, lead curator of spoken English at the British Library and the author of the Evolving English WordBank, says the exercise – which saw ordinary people across the country “donate” words in special recording booths between 2010 and 2011 – proves that dialect words are far from being extinct.

“A lot of people feel dialect is dwindling but actually, although it’s changing … you can find examples of continuity,” Robinson says. The Evolving English WordBank contains 1,500 contributions to date, many of which are dialect words.

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We are judged based on our accents

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Do accents make you smarter?
In theory they do but it depends on what accent it is - it states that accents such as Scouse,Birmingham and Gordie are associated with not being a formal dialect,however accents such as Glaswegian, Edinbrugh, Kent and The London accent are associated with being a high register dialect.

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