K1.2
Relevant tapescripts in Collins and Mees, Practical Phonetics and Phonology:
1 - Traditional RP
2 - Modern RP
41 - Cockney (Greater London)
42 - West Country (Bristol)
43 - Midlans (Birmingham)
44 - North (Lancashire)
45 - Geordie (Newcastle) 45 - Scottish (Edinburgh)
47 - Irish Republic (Greater Dublin)
48 - Northern Ireland (Belfast)
49 - South Wales
50 - Scouse (Liverpool)
51 - Southern USA (Texas)
52 - Kentucky
53 - Canadian
54 - Australian
55 - New Zealand
56 - South African
57 - Indian English
58 - Singapore
59 - Caribbean (West Indian)
1 Cockney (Greater London) © Track 47
Steve: there was one of our blokes - one of his family - like cousins or uncles - or you know - in that range - had had an accident - and been taken to hospital - so he spent - I think most of his weekend without any sleep at all - at this hospital ■like - until he knew - that the person was going to be OK - anyway - come Monday morning - he decides to go straight to work - and - he comes to work - and say he has "had no sleep at all and he's got a job to do in this house to provide - an extension phone - you know - and usually - it's - you run the cable upstairs into a bedroom - it's the usual.place to have the phone - and - the bed - was fitted into slots in the floor - so he couldn't sort of - move it over. I mean - he could only get |two legs out of the hole in the floor and he couldn't - he needed two people to pSctually lift it and move it - so he laid across the bed - to - finish the cabling - and' pcrew the - terminal box on the wall - and - not having had any sleep - he just sort |;of drifted off - and the thing is - the gentleman who let him in - but said he was í going to work - and his wife would be in shortly - and she's come in - and not pnowing the telephone man was there - I mean - to see a van outside - but she Ipidn't- you know - sort of put two and two together - she's come in - she's gone Múpstairs - into the bathroom - and she's - taken her clothes off like - you know -jiand gone into the bedroom to get her housecoat - she was going to have a bath priand there's a strange man laying on the bed - snoring his head off - needless piôisay - our bloke spent about six hours in the nick - trying to explain what had plappened - yes - spent six hours in the police station
'(colloquial) = man
lying. Many southern British varieties conflate the two verbs lie and lay. |/d;(general slang) = police station, prison
iption
;{raditional word for the broad accent of London is 'Cockney'. The origins of the jrcj, which go back at least 700 years, are uncertain; one attractive theory is that it r come from an old tale of the fool who believed in a 'cocken ey', a cockerel's egg. ' skney is allegedly someone born 'within the sound of Bow Bells' - that's to say |eyou can hear the bells of St Mary-le-Bow church in the East End of London, definition would cut the number of Cockneys down to a few thousand, but leylis generally used to refer to all London, and to the speech of the Greater on area, which has a population of nearly seven million. Outer London, where e speak with accents similar to London, covers a huge area and takes in ion inhabitants. Our speaker, Steve, is a telephone engineer from Lewisham in •east London. ■ Cockney is non-rhotic with variable h-dropping. Steve, for instance, pronounces 1} hospital on two occasions but drops /h/ in hole. Syllable-final stop consonants ifrongly glottalised. In medial and final position, Steve often replaces medial Itl [pttal stop [?] (e.g. © without any, move it over). Post-vocalic /I/ is very dark, sound-ijather like [u] (e.g. © usual, terminal, wall). Many speakers replace /9 67 by /f v/, %reefeathers = ['frsi 'fevsz] (not heard in this sample). /j/-dropping can be heard Qknew.
ndoners use virtually the same vowel system as NRP, but the realisations of rowels are very different. The strut vowel is front and open [a] (e.g. © come \day). fleece and goose are extended glides [si au] (e.g. © needed, move). The ^thongs face, price and goat (e.g. 0 straight, like and phone) sound like NRP Ithongs price, choice and mouth. The Cockney mouth vowel (e.g. © house) mted and often raised ([a:] or [es]), sounding rather like NRP square. Front ;ed vowels, dress and trap (e.g. © bed, van, family) tend to be closer. Like NRP, inlike most other British accents, Cockney has the palm rather than the trap ?i in the bath words (e.g. © bathroom).