2. The Northern type. It is spoken in the North, North-West, Yorkshire, West-Midland. To the Northern
type, therefore, we refer Midland accents, Newcastle accent, Yorkshire accents and
some others.
The counties of northern England are not far from the Scottish border, so the
influence of Scotch accent is noticeable.
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The main distinctions of the Northern type of pronunciation are as
follows:
[a] is used instead of [
æ] [bæg
bag]
[a:] turns into
[æ] [gla:s
glæs]
[u] instead of
[ ʌ ] [l
ʌ
v
luv]
[ ɔ :
] instead of
[ou] [gou
g
ɔ :]
– the same with most other diphthongs – they become monophthongs
Final [i] sounds like [i:]: [
‗
siti
‗
siti:]
Words that have
‗
al‘ in spelling – talk, call, all, are pronounced with [a:]: [ta:k,
ka:l, a:l]
Words with [
ɛ
:] are pronounced with [o:]: first [fo:st]
[ai] is [ei]: right [reit]
All sounds in the Northern British Regional type are generally drawled -
―
the
sing – song
ǁ
pronunciation
3. The Scottish type. Today the status of Scottish English is still debated. Some linguists say that it is
a national variant, others say that it is a dialect.
Nowadays educated Scottish people speak a form of Scottish Standard English
which grammatically and lexically is not different from English used elsewhere,
although with an obvious Scottish accent.
Non-standard dialects of Scotland resemble Scots – a Celtic language. In many
respects they are radically different from most other varieties of English. The common
features are as follows:
[
ɜ
:] is never used: girl [girl], bird [bird]
They use sequences [ir], [er], [ar]
Instead of [au]- [u] is used [daun dun, taun
tun]
They don‘t differentiate between [æ] and [a:] it‘s pronounced as
[a].
All vowels are short.
There exists sound [
ʍ
] - it is a voiceless fricative sound
which [ ʍ it ʃ ]
Initial
p, t, k are usually non-aspirated
ing is [in]
[
θ
r] is pronounced as [∫r]
They have several falls instead of one in one phrase.
The speech is rather slow and full of ups and downs.