Andrej Bjelakovi

Savremeni engleski jezik G2 Izgovor

Most of the recordings are available on YouTube. Also check out Paul Meiers
http://www.dialectsarchive.com and
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/accentsanddialects/ where John Wells uploaded the
recordings originally published on cassettes to accompany his 1982 Accents of English.
IPA symbols and sounds: www.phonetics.ucla.edu/course/chapter1/chapter1.html

Old RP

Speakers: William Henry Beveridge, John Maynard Keynes, Edith Sitwell, Alec Douglas-
Home amd Bertrand Russell.
Additional speakers: King George V and Queen Mary, Christabel Harriette Pankhurst,
Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Virginia Woolf, John Gielgud, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier,
Patricia Hughes, as well as many of the interviewees on this page:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/writers/


Features:

GOOSE is fully back [u] (today [])

TRAP [] ~ [

] (with a certain degree of pharyngealization, making it sound bleated)

DRESS [e] (short front vowels are closer than in contemporary RP)

happY [] ~ [e]

PRICE [a] (today [ ])

FACE [e] ~ [e

] (today [])

LOT [] ~ [ ] (today closer to [])
THOUGHT [] (today [o ]) (both more open than in contemporary RP)

Intervocalic /r/ alveolar tap []

Final schwa usually pretty open []

Unstressed syllables often have KIT rather than schwa (cruellest, intellectual etc.)












Andrej Bjelakovi
Savremeni engleski jezik G2 Izgovor


Cockney

Speakers: Steve Harris, Vinnie Jones and Adele
Additional speakers: Ray Winstone, Mickey Flanegan, Ian Dury etc.

Features:

Diphthong shift: FACE [] ~ [a]
PRICE[] ~ []
FLEECE [i] ~ [i], GOOSE [] ~[]

MOUTH [] ~ [:]

L-vocalization: [] > [o]

TH-fronting: [] > [f], [] > [v]

T-glottalling ubiquitous (present even intervocalically in word-medial positions)

H-dropping

Short non-back vowels more similar to Old RP than to Modern RP, i.e DRESS and TRAP are
closer, and STRUT is more front than in Contemporary RP.

Estuary English the middle ground between Cockney and RP























Andrej Bjelakovi
Savremeni engleski jezik G2 Izgovor


Australia/New Zealand

Speakers: Steve Irwin, Julia Gillard and Georgina Ball


Features:

Diphthong shift: FACE [] ~ [a]
PRICE[] ~ []
FLEECE [i] ~ [i], GOOSE [] ~[]

MOUTH [] ~ []

Dark /l/ throughout (velarized or pharyngealized)

No T-Glottalling, H-Dropping or TH-Fronting

T-voicing widespread (intervocalic, syllable-final /t/ is [])

Short front vowels closer, similar to Old RP and Cockney
TRAP []
DRESS [e]
KIT AU [i], NZ []~[]

START fronted [a ] ~ []

NZ: SQUARE and NEAR are merged to [e] ~ [i]





















Andrej Bjelakovi
Savremeni engleski jezik G2 Izgovor