The stylistic variation of nuclear patterns in Belfast English

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Lowry, Orla
Copyright Year	2002
Description	Informal observation of Belfast speakers finds a larger number of falls in careful speaking styles than the literature would suggest is the case, since Belfast English is reported to be one of the minority varieties of English in which the rise predominates in both interrogatives and declaratives. Three different speaking styles, ranging from careful to spontaneous are elicited from twelve seventeen-year-old Belfast speakers, and the nuclear accents analysed. In the majority of speakers, there is a tendency to use more falling nuclei when the speech style is careful, and fewer or none at all in the most informal style. It is suggested that this is an attempt, in formal contexts, to emulate the prestige variety of the language, which is probably that spoken in Southern England, and uses a preponderance of falling nuclei. Female speakers show more willingness than males to use the features of the prestige variety, which may be explained by social, cultural and complex contextual reasons.
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Ending Page	42
Page Count	10
Starting Page	33
ISSN	00251003
e-ISSN	14753502
DOI	10.1017/s0025100302000130
Journal	Journal of the International Phonetic Association
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	32
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	2002-06-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Journal of the International Phonetic Association Language Studies Speaking Styles
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Anthropology Speech and Hearing Linguistics and Language