%0 Journal Article 
%A Reyes Martínez, Elena
%T Boundaries between RP and Estuary English: linguistic attitudes from native speakers towards their own accents

%D 2019
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/23566
%X The following research will walk us through the history of British English language. The initial objective was to find out how the perception of the native British English speakers is changing towards their own accents nowadays. We will focus on the Received Pronunciation accent, which has been the model of the Standard British form. Later we will compare it to a brand-new accent called Estuary English, term coined by Rosewarne in 1984. After that the theories of some of the most important linguists that have theorised on this topic will be exposed in order to have a look at the on-going debate on whether Estuary English accent should be considered as such or not. The main hypothesis was the suspicion that this so-called Estuary accent is currently gaining acceptability in Britain. On the basis of a phonetic point of view, so that the previous hypothesis is proved, two anonymous recordings of two different native speakers (one is an RP speaker and the other one is an EE) together with a questionnaire for each recording about linguistic attitudes to a total of 12 informants. These subjects are between the ages of 19 to 25 years old, all native British teenagers born and raised in the South-east part of England, especially London (the place where phoneticians localise EE accent). Our previous study was made considering the results of the questionnaire (see Appendix 2), bearing in mind the following hypothesis to be tested (besides the main one): in the first place, the subjects’ familiarity with accents will affect their acceptance of different varieties of English; second, young generations of native British English can find EE as good of a model for EFL teaching as RP; third, natives will agree on the fact that there exist moral associations with accents; and fourth, the subjects might find it hard to specifically localise the Estuary speaker.

%K British English
%K Received Pronunciation
%K RP
%K Estuary English
%K EE
%K England
%K South-east
%K London
%K native
%K Rosewarne
%K Wells
%K accents
%K linguistic attitudes
%K Inglés británico
%K Inglés del estuario
%K Inglaterra
%K Suroeste
%K Londres
%K nativo
%K acentos
%K actitudes lingüísticas
%~ Universidad de Cádiz