This course aims at making students familiar with the
description of colloquial oral English. The accent under scrutiny
will be essentially RP-related Non-regional pronunciation
(NRP) with features of Estuary English (EE) with special
attention to connected speech.
Here’s a non-exhaustive list of phenomena to be dealt with:
Standard Accents of English: reminder
Sounds of English: brush-up
Predictable vs. idiosyncratic features of pronunciation
L, R types, linking R and intrusive R
The fate of vowels before R & L: Pre-R breaking, broadening,
smoothing
The fate of voiceless plosives: aspiration, glottaling, tapping
Syncope, syllable squeezing & syllabic consonants
Assimilation & Elision
