Accent & Dialect - Social Class

Match the following

• Romaine

• Trudgill

• Norwich

• Wolfram & Fasold

• Detroit

• New York

• Yorkshire

• Petyt

• Labov

• Reading & New York

In Norwich, which group did Trudgill find was most likely to pronounce the 'ng' sound in a word like "singing"?

• Lower class

• Upper Class

• Middle Class

In Norwich, which group did Trudgill find was least likely to pronounce the 'ng' sound in a word like "singing"?

• Lower class

• Upper Class

• Middle Class

In Norwich, Trudgill discovered that types of speech affected pronunciation of the 'ng' sound in a word like "singing". Which context produced the highest pronunciation of this sound?

• Casual Speech

• Formal Speech

• Reading Passage

• Word list

In Norwich, Trudgill discovered that types of speech affected pronunciation of the 'ng' sound in a word like "singing". Which context produced the lowest pronunciation of this sound?

• Casual Speech

• Formal Speech

• Reading Passage

• Word list

In Reading and New York, Romaine discovered that the post-vocalic R is most often pronounced by...

• Lower classes in Reading

• Higher classes in Reading

• Lower classes in New York

• Higher classes in New York

In New York, the post-vocalic R is a linguistic variable associated with...

• Prestige

• Stigma

In Reading, the post-vocalic R is a linguistic variable associated with...

• Prestige

• Stigma

In England, there is a strong correlation between high use of linguistic variants and belonging to...

• Upper class

• Middle Class

• Lower class

In Trudgill's and Labov's studies, what linguistic variable did they add in as well as social class?

• Age

• Gender

• Context