L-Vocalisation in London English

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_8738
dc.title	L-Vocalisation in London English
dc.contributor.author	Ciancia Carmen
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-occidentale/2023/57/l-vocalisation-in-london-english/
dc.description.abstract	Linguists argued that the Cockney dialect, in London, is expected to be replaced by Multicultural London English in the years to come. However, this does not imply that Cockney is dead, as recent research revealed that it just moved to Essex. This paper aims at examining whether (l) vocalisation, a common feature of Cockney, is still present in the London district of Bermondsey. Ten working-class English speakers, stratified by age and sex, have been recorded by means of sociolinguistic interviews. The results, discussed both quantitively and qualitatively, show that: (a) (l) vocalisation is present in all age cohorts, with young speakers favouring the non-standard feature; (b) preceding long vowels trigger (l) vocalisation.
dc.relation.ispartof	Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 57 \| September 2023
dc.issued	2023-10-30
dc.dateAccepted	2022-12-11
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-04-06
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-1562
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/AnnOc/2499-1562/2023/11/001
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	(l) vocalisation
dc.subject	Language variation
dc.subject	London English
dc.subject	Phonology
dc.subject	Sociolinguistics

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Carmen Ciancia Università degli Studi di Salerno

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abstract

Linguists argued that the Cockney dialect, in London, is expected to be replaced by Multicultural London English in the years to come. However, this does not imply that Cockney is dead, as recent research revealed that it just moved to Essex. This paper aims at examining whether (l) vocalisation, a common feature of Cockney, is still present in the London district of Bermondsey. Ten working-class English speakers, stratified by age and sex, have been recorded by means of sociolinguistic interviews. The results, discussed both quantitively and qualitatively, show that: (a) (l) vocalisation is present in all age cohorts, with young speakers favouring the non-standard feature; (b) preceding long vowels trigger (l) vocalisation.

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Oct. 30, 2023

Accepted

Dec. 11, 2022

Submitted

April 6, 2022

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Keywords: Sociolinguistics • Language variation • London English • (l) vocalisation • Phonology

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