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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 a detailed 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.

Accents and dialects are constantly undergoing small variations over time, but evidence shows that change may have become increasingly rapid in the past few decades. 'Urban Voices' presents one of the few recent surveys of this phonological variation and change in urban accents across Great Britain and Ireland.



Each of the specially commissioned chapters is divided into two parts. The first provides a detailed description of accent features within one or more urban centres, including information on social and stylistic variation and ongoing change. The second discusses a...