Name: How to Understand UK Accents (Part 1)
Uploaded: 2021-01-31T19:10:25.000Z
Duration: 17 min 22 s
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法助動詞 B1

you may be surprised that people don't speak the same

as the recordings in your English language textbook

English - like every other language – exhibits variation

If you're aware of how people speak differently

you'll find it easier to understand a wider range of native English speakers

exploring the phonetic diversity across the UK's four nations

will focus on sounds characteristic of certain accents

Let's get started by focusing on 5 consonant features

Rhotic speakers will always pronounce the letter "r" as /r/

Non-rhotic speakers only pronounce the letter "r" as /r/

Here, there are no /r/ sounds in the second word

I was born in the southern part of England

and you'll hear that my accent is non-rhotic

This is a map produced by the University of Cambridge in 2016

Orange marks areas where there are more rhotic speakers

Green where there are more non-rhotic speakers

And yellow where there is roughly an equal mix of both

It's true that we find rhotic speakers in Scotland

but we also find non-rhotic speakers there too

Linguists have documented non-rhotic speakers in Scotland

the situation has changed significantly in recent times

When a survey was conducted in the 1950s,

but nowadays there are far fewer rhotic speakers here

then expect to hear both rhotic and non-rhotic speech

You may have heard of Received Pronunciation – or RP

Different people have different definitions of what RP refers to

but for many it describes an old-fashioned English accent

In this video series I'm going to refer to the modern successor of RP

and you'll find lots of people with this accent

is always pronounced at the start of sentences

and people in Scotland and Northern Ireland

H-droppers may not be consistent in their H-dropping

For example, somebody may pronounce a word with H

and later pronounce the same word without the H

when the vocal folds inside the larynx (or voice box)

firmly come together for a short period of time

to replace a [t] sound at the end of a word

Glottal stops are also used to replace a [t] sound between vowels

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How to Understand UK Accents (Part 1)

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