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Wed Aug 27 2003

Sum: Estuary English

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Message 1: Sum: Estuary English

Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:34:50 +0000
From: Joanna Ryfa <j.mercuryinteria.pl>
Subject: Sum: Estuary English

Last month I posted a query concerning Estuary English (Linguist 14.1994). I was looking for recordings and materials on new research.

The following people responded and I am extremely grateful for their help.

Prof. Peter Trudgill referred me to Joanna Przedlackas book ''Estuary English? A sociophonetic study of teenage speech in the Home Counties''. Lang, 2002, and his article Received Pronunciation: Sociolinguistic Aspects, Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 36, 2001, now available in Sociolinguistic Variation and Change (I had been familiar with both, but thank you anyway, Professor Trudgill)

Asif Agha, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, sent me a recent paper on Received Pronunciation (with some discussion of Estuary English): Agha, Asif. 2003. The social life of cultural value. Language and Communication, 23: 231-273.

Dr Hermine Penz, M.S., Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz, sent me a valuable recording

Dr Anthea Fraser Gupta, School of English, University of Leeds, helped me understand some aspects of language change in English and made a few suggestions connected with EE that I am willing to consider (thank you for all your e-mails)

Dr David Britain, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Director of Graduate Admissions, Department of Language and Linguistics, Essex University, allowed me to download the following articles:

Surviving 'Estuary English': innovation diffusion, koineisation and local dialect differentiation in the English Fenland. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 41: 74-103: http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~dbritain/4.pdf

Phoenix from the ashes?: The death, contact and birth of dialects in England. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 41: 42-73: http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~dbritain/5.pdf

Dr David Deterding, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, gave me access and permission to use the NIECSSE recordings

http://www.arts.nie.edu.sg/ell/davidd/niecsse/index.htm More information on the corpus is available at: http://www.arts.nie.edu.sg/ell/davidd/niecsse/saal-quarterly.htm Penny Ann McKeon, LL.B, doing an MA ('Diversity or Convergence? A study of speech features in a Sussex village') in Applied Linguistics at Sussex University, sent me her bibliography with references to brand new materials. Penny, good luck with your research and dissertation! We'll keep in touch.

Mr Richard Ingham (academic title unknown to me) described some language changes and processes he has been observing in Essex and sent me a summary of an interesting research in Basildon done by Ms Susan Fox. Thank you for your readiness to help me distribute the questionnaires.

I would also like to express my gratitude to:

Dr Joanna Przedlacka of UW (especially for patience, all the e-mails and explanations), Dr Keith Battarbee, University of Turku, Finland Prof. Paul Coggle, School of European Culture and Languages, Carnwallis North West, University of Kent at Canterbury Dr Pia K�hlmyr, Gothenburg University Prof. Paul Kerswill, School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies, University of Reading (special thanks for the materials on dialect levelling and Milton Keynes)

The people mentioned above responded to my earlier letters connected with EE. Thank you all.

Joanna Ryfa

P.S. If anybody knows Ms Susan Fox, please tell her I would like to contact her. Her e-mail address suefoxsfoxhome.freeserve.co.uk is no longer valid, at least my computer rejects it.