Investigating residual rhoticity in a non-rhotic accent

Esther C. Asprey

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    Abstract

    This paper reports on preliminary findings of a study conducted in the Black Country area of the west midlands of England. The small number of linguistic studies carried out in this region in the last 40 years have not found evidence of the continuing existence of variable rhoticity in the local speech variety. The Survey of English Dialects in the 1950s found low levels of rhoticity among speakers in the location closest to the Black Country, and I examine here similar findings from a detailed study of the variety, carried out between 2003-2006.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)78-101
    Number of pages24
    JournalLeeds Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics
    Volume12
    Publication statusPublished - 2007

    Keywords

    • Black Country
    • west midlands
    • England
    • variable rhoticity
    • local speech variety
    • Survey of English Dialects

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