English Accents and Dialects

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English Accents and Dialects is a unique introductory survey of the main regional and social varieties of English spoken in the UK and Ireland. The authors discuss accent and dialect in the broader framework of language variation, including phonetic, phonological, grammatical, lexical, historical and stylistic differences. This is followed by a survey of the speech of sixteen different areas of the UK and Ireland.