PRONUNCIATION VARIETIES, Autumn 2009


Sep. 29               Introduction. Literature. Terminology. Web sources.

Wells’  triangle and Trudgill’s chart.

Sources of recordings.

2 social varieties in Educating Rita.

Anglican vicar stereotype in The Three Men and a Little Lady.

HW: RP and other models. Accents in the teachings of

the Prague school.


Oct. 6                  The sociolinguistics of accents. RP. Talking Proper.


Oct. 13                EE accents in the UK.


Oct. 20                EE accents outside the UK: AUS, NZ, SA.


Oct. 27                Scottish. HW: watch Trainspotting.


Nov. 3                 Irish. Northern: In the Name of the Father.


Nov. 10               AmE varieties: standard and the North; Canada


Nov. 17               VELVET REVOLUTION DAY.

AmE varieties: the South. HW: watch The Cat on a Hot

                                               Tin Roof, Forrest Gump.


Nov. 24               The Caribbean. Papua New Guinea.

                            African and Indian varieties.

International English, second-language varieties.


Dec. 1                 Revision; Mock test in accent recognition.


Dec. 8                 Credit test.


Dec. 15               Assessments, credits.