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Milroy's Belfast Study
Members of a speech community are connected to each other in social networks which may be relatively 'closed' or 'open'
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Investigated the correlation between the integration of individuals in the community and the way those individuals speak. Particularly looked at the standard and non-standard forms of (th) as in mother and (a) as in hat.
- Women's speech had less non-standard forms because women belong to less dense social network
- However in some instances men and women both used the non-standard (a) as in hat. Milroy explains this finding is based on the social pressures operating in the communities.
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Julia Snell
Picking on non-standard voices risks marginalising some children and could make them less confident.
John Honey (1977)
- Children should be taught SE at school (to give equal opportunity)
- Children will be disadvantaged if they don't know how to use it.
- SE ensures everyone will be able to understand each other.
Workman (2008)
- Studied peoples perceptions of accents.
- Rated intelligence of people in photos differently depending on what accent they had.
- Yorkshire accent most intelligent.
- Birmingham accent lease intelligent.
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Howard Giles (1970)
- Individual who naturally spoke more than one dialect, read out the same passage about capital punishment.
- Preference of RP accent and has the most impact on the listener.
Dixon, Mahoney and Cocks (2002).
- Suspects with a Birmingham accent are more likely to be seen as guilty than RP speakers.
Ives (2014) .
- School students from Pakistan backgrounds in Bradford use language to build identity and exclude more recent arrivals.
- London students use a shared language system regardless of ethnicity or background.