Urban Voices

Bringing together a team of dialectologists, sociolinguists, phoneticians and phonologists, this book presents exciting new data, as well as well-known research on phonological variation and change in urban accents across the British Isles. Each chapter is split in two sections: the first is adetailed description of the social and stylistic variation of a particular accent, the second is a discussion of the implications of this data in broader theoretical terms.