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Urban voices : accent studies in the British Isles / edited by Paul Foulkes, Department of linguistics and phonetics, University of Leeds and Gerard J. Docherty, Department of Speech, University of Newcastle. - xiii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Surveys the current state of accents in Britain, looking in detail at some fifteen, and introduces issues at the forefront of ongoing work in theoretical sociolinguistics and descriptive dialectology.

ISBN: 0340706082 9780340706084

Subjects--Topical Terms:
English language--Accents and accentuation--Ireland--Dublin.
English language--Dialects--Great Britain.
English language--Accents and accentuation--Great Britain.

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Index Terms--Genre/Form: --Reading book

Dewey Class. No.: 427.941 / FOU