English Accents and Dialects av UK) Arthur Hughes (formerly of Reading University, Peter Trudgill, Dominic (University of York United Kingdom) Watt

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<P><EM>English Accents and Dialects</EM> is an essential guide to contemporary social and regional varieties of English spoken in the British Isles today. Together with invaluable overviews of numerous regional accents and dialects, this fifth edition provides a detailed description of key features of Received Pronounciation (RP) as well as several major non-standard varieties of English.<BR><BR><STRONG>Key features:<BR></STRONG></P><UL><LI>main regional differences are followed by a survey of speech in over 20 areas of the UK and Ireland, audio samples of which are available to download at www.routledge.com/cw/hughes</LI><LI>recent findings on London English, Aberdeen English and Liverpool English</LI><LI>contains new entries on Hull, Manchester, Carlisle, Middlesbrough, Southampton, London West Indian, Lancashire and the Shetlands</LI><LI>additional exercises with answers online accompany the new varieties </LI><LI>clear maps throughout for locating particular accents and d