Accents and dialects are constantly undergoing small variations
over time, but evidence shows that change may have become
increasingly rapid in the past few decades. 'Urban Voices' presents
one of the few recent surveys of this phonological variation and
change in urban accents across Great Britain and Ireland. Each of
the specially commissioned chapters is divided into two parts. The
first provides a detailed description of accent features within one
or more urban centres, including information on social and
stylistic variation and ongoing change. The second discusses a
range of current theoretical and methodological issues. Some
chapters present wholly new data based on fieldwork carried out
specifically for inclusion in 'Urban Voices', while others
summarise data from well-known research, up-dated and reanalysed in
accordance with new findings. Containing copious illustrative and
pedagogic material, this textbook presents a clear pathway to
state-of-the-art research for students of sociolinguistics,
dialectology, phonetics, and phonology at advanced undergraduate
and graduate level. In addition, the detailed descriptive data and
the accompanying cassette constitute a valuable resource for
students and teachers of English, clinicians and speech therapists,
forensic phoneticians, researchers in speech recognition and speech
synthesis, and actors. Contributors: Deborah Chirrey, Edge Hill
University College / Beverley Collins, Rijks Universiteit Leiden,
Netherlands / Gerard J Docherty, University of Newcastle, UK / Paul
Foulkes, University of Leeds, UK / Nigel Hewlett, Queen Margaret
College / Raymond Hickey, University of Essen, Germany / Paul
Kerswill, University of Reading, UK / Anne Grethe Mathisen,
University of Oslo, Norway / Kevin McCafferty, Universitetet i
Tromso, Norway / Inger Mees, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark /
Lesley Milroy , University of Michigan, USA / Mark Newbrook, Monash
University, Australia / James M Scobbie, Queen Margaret College, UK
/ Jana Stoddart, Olomouc, Czech Republic / Jane Stuart-Smith,
University of Glasgow, UK / Laura Tollfree, Monash University,
Australia / Peter Trudgill, University of Fribourg, Switzerland /
Alice Turk, University of Edinburgh, UK / Clive Upton, University
of Leeds, UK / Dominic Watt, University of Leeds, UK / J D A
Widdowson, University of Sheffield, UK / Ann Williams, University
of Reading, UK.
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