English accent and dialect

What did martha’s Vineyard study show

Locals subconsciously creating their own dialects to isolate tourists

What did Copland and bishop look at

Social prestige and attractiveness

What accents in Coupland and bishops study were ranked the highest

Standard and queens English

What accents were ranked lowest in Coupland and bishops study

Birmingham and Liverpool

What did kerswill and Williams study in Milton Keynes

Dialect levelling and koineization

What are the key causes of dialect levelling

Geographical and social mobility

Whats koineization

Where two accents mix together and become more simplified and levelled

Why does the city of hull maintain its traditional northern features

Geographical isolation and closed social networks

What does dialect levelling cause a reduction of

Language diversity

What does identity and heritage mean in reference to language

How language defines who we are through lexical choices

What are some examples of linguistic discrimination

The James kahuakua study

What did foulkes and docherty study

Geographical diffusion of phonological variants

What phonological variants did foulkes and docherty look at

TH fronting from London

What did lippi green look at in language

How media teaches discrimination

What’s the point of the matched guise research

Used to study how people judge based entirely on accent and dialect

What does the matched guise research method compare

Overt vs covert prestige

What did howard Giles find in his matched guise research

Found that teenagers rated people with the RP accent as more intelligent than the brummies

What did Dixon Mahoney and cocks find in their research

Found a correlation between accents and perceived guilt

What did Neuleip and Speten hansen find in their ethnocentrism study

People perceive non native accents as less attractive and credible

Who looked at perceptual dialectiology and what did this study include

Montgomery who asked people to draw dialect boundaries on a map