TY - BOOK ID - 77938229 TI - Dialect and accent in industrial West Yorkshire PY - 1985 SN - 1283359073 9786613359070 9027279497 9789027279491 9027248648 9789027248640 PB - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., DB - UniCat KW - English language KW - Germanic languages KW - Dialects KW - Accents and accentuation. KW - Social aspects KW - West Yorkshire (England) KW - West Yorkshire, Eng. KW - West Yorkshire KW - Languages. KW - Accents and accentuation KW - Dialectology KW - Sociolinguistics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77938229 AB - This volume is concerned with one of the few thorough-going Labovian studies carried out in Britain. Based on a survey of over hundred randomly selected informants from the towns of Bradford, Halifax and Huddersfield, it deals first with the methodology employed, and then sketches some aspects of the 'traditional' dialects of the area before describing a large number of variables. Other non-standard features encountered during the survey are described, since these too are part of the changing patterns of speech in West Yorkshire. The final chapter draws a distinction between 'dialect' and 'accent' which is slightly different from that generally employed, and suggests that while 'dialect' features seem to have declined under the pressure of the standard language, 'accent' still persists as a social differentiator. ER -