МОСКОВСКИЙ ГОРОДСКОЙ ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКИЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ
    Факультет иностранных языков
    Английское отделение
    
    
    
    Дипломная работа
    по фонетике английского языка
    на тему:
    "REGIONAL VARIATION OF PRONUNCIATION IN THE SOUTH-WEST OF ENGLAND"
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Москва 2001
    Plan:
    Introduction........................................................................................3 Part I. The Specific Features of dialects 1. What is the "dialect"?.....................................................................4 2. Geographic dialects........................................................................5 3. Dialectal change and diffusion............................................................5 4. Unifying influences on dialects...........................................................8 5. Focal, relic, and transitional areas........................................................9 6. Received Pronunciation...................................................................9 7. Who first called it PR?...................................................................10 8. Social Variation...........................................................................11 9. Dialects of England: Traditional and Modern.........................................12 Part II. Background to the Cornish Language 1. Who are the Cornish?.....................................................................15 2. What is a Celtic Language?.............................................................15 3. How is Cornish Related to other Celtic Languages?.................................15 4. The Decline of Cornish..................................................................15 5. The Rebirth of Cornish..................................................................16 6. Standard Cornish..........................................................................16 7. Who uses Cornish Today?...............................................................16 8. Government Recognition for Cornish..................................................16 Part III. Peculiarities of South-Western Dialects 1. Vocalisation...............................................................................18 2. Consonantism..............................................................................23 3. Grammar...................................................................................27 3.1 Nouns..................................................................................27
    3.2 Gender.................................................................................27 3.2.1 Gender making in Wessex-type English........................................27
    3.3 Numerals..............................................................................29
    3.4 Adjectives..............................................................................29 .5 Pronouns...............................................................................30 3.5.1 Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
    in a Devonshire dialect.........................................................31 3.6 Verbs.................................................................................39 3.7 Adverbs..............................................................................42 3.8 Transitivity and intransivity in the dialects
    of South-West England............................................................44
    4. Vocabulary..........................................................................52
    Conclusions.......................................................................................68
    Bibliography......................................................................................69
    Supplements......................................................................................71
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Introduction.
    
    The modern English language is an international language nowadays. It is also the first spoken language of such countries as Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa.
    But in the very United Kingdom there are some varieties of it, called dialects, and accents.
    The purpose of the present research paper is to study the characteristic features of the present day dialect of the South-Western region in particular.
    To achieve this purpose it is necessary to find answers to the following questions: - What is the "dialect"? - Why and where is it spoken? - How does it differ from the standard language?
    Methods of this research paper included the analysis of works of the famous linguists and phoneticians as Peter Trudgill and J.K. ............