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Dialect Levelling
- What is it?
- a form of standardisation
- regional speech forms becoming less prominent
- speech forms becoming more similar
- a form of standardisation
- Factors that may cause it
- geographical mobility
- social mobility
- more interaction with varieties of patterns
- peer pressure in adolescents
- economic change
- geographical mobility
- The Investigation
- studied changes in different areas
- Reading
- Milton Keynes
- Hull
- Reading
- Studied Children and One Caregiver
- Children aged 4, 8 and 12
- prominent caregiver, usually the mother
- Children aged 4, 8 and 12
- Method
- used interviews to look at pronunciation differences
- used interviews to look at pronunciation differences
- studied changes in different areas
- Findings
- Dialect Levelling was more prominent in Milton Keynes
- It was least prevalent in Hull
- adolescents were still influenced by popular culture, but retained the dialect
- adolescents were still influenced by popular culture, but retained the dialect
- In Reading the change was more gradual
- Dialect Levelling was more prominent in Milton Keynes
- Conclusion
- economics play a large part in dialect levelling
- Hull has higher levels of unemployment, less focus on education
- Hull has higher levels of unemployment, less focus on education
- Adolescents play a huge part, including popular culture
- economics play a large part in dialect levelling
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