English is a language at the centre of research into language contact, because its global
spread has resulted in contact with an enormous variety of different languages worldwide …

This study is a formant-based investigation of the vowels of male speakers in 13 accents of
the British Isles. It provides F1/F2 graphs (obtained with a semi-automatic method) which …

This comprehensive textbook provides a practical introduction to English phonetics and
phonology. Assuming no prior background, the author outlines all of the core concepts and …

Filled with real examples of the way people use English in different contexts, The Routledge
Dictionary of English Language Studies is an indispensable guide to the richness and …

This paper addresses the issue of the emergence of new standards of English in the
postcolonial world by means of a language attitude study conducted in the Caribbean island …

For nearly 400 years, New England has held an important place in the development of
American English, and" New England accents" are very well known in the popular …

1.1 Aim and scope Received Pronunciation, or RP, is probably the most thoroughly
described accent of English. There has, however, been very little quantitative empirical …

The study aims to enrich the available acoustic data pertaining to vowels of what may
tentatively be called contemporary RP or near-RP. The corpus comprised BBC radio and TV …

The presence or absence of non-prevocalic/r/, also known as rhoticity, has been frequently
examined in studies of language variation and change with some varieties gaining rhoticity …

We illustrate how a high-dimension feature space typically used in speech technology can
be adapted to the phonetic description of vowels in 13 accents of the British Isles. In a …