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Last update: 13/04/2024
BBNAN21200/11600/BBLAN01600/11600 Angol dialektológia ea. / English dialectology lecture course
Topics: background - classification of E accents - major regional accents of E (England/Wales, the Celtic countries, North America, the Southern Hemisphere) - pidgins, creoles, etc. - RP vs. GA - BrE vs. AmE.
Check out the relevant BA final exam topics here.
Set reading: Balogné Bérces, Katalin (2009) Beginner's English Dialectology. (Available electronically from MEK. Hard copies may still be available in bookshops, and some are in stock in the library, too (in Dan 102).)
Assessment: written exam (MuCh test). [If the exam is conducted electronically in Neptun/Unipoll, it'll include multiple-choice questions only.] The QUALIFYING SECTION at the beginning of the test: fill-in exercises randomly selected from a set of questions - CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD; you must properly answer at least 80% of the questions for your test to be marked further; if you do not, you fail, and the rest of your test will not be corrected/graded.
An online mock exam quiz is available in Neptun Unipoll (via "Exams"/"Vizsgák" > "Take e-exam"/"Vizsgázás"). You can fill it in repeatedly. The results are displayed at the end, but they do NOT influence your mark for the term. It is mildly randomised, so repeated attempts provide more practice.
Also check out Teams regularly for illustrations, videos, etc. shared in the newsfeed.
Useful links: Latest addition: 29/04/2022
Major online resources: International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA) (IDEA on FB) - Speech Accent Archive - Dynamic Dialects - BBC Voices - Illustrations of the International Phonetic Association (IPA) - Digital Archive of Southern Speech (Southern US English) - Dialects of English audio files (EUP) - Accents of English from Around the World (U. of Edinburgh) - British Accents and Dialects (British Library) - English Accent Variables - J. C. Wells: Accents of English recordings of English accents and dialects -
General: History of English timeline - Language and place (by P. Trudgill, on BBC Voices) - BBC World Service Quiz: Guess the accent - books to download - IDEA highlights: England 43 (northern), Scotland 5, Florida 1, Ontario 3, Australia 21 - Sound map: Accents & dialects - VLC videos - What is an Accent? on LinguistList - about standard language ideology - Beszélünk-e még nyelvjárásban? - A szegedi ö-zés: létezik? - Angol mint világ- vagy gyilkos nyelv? - Hány nyelv az angol?, R-ező és nem-R-ező angol dialektusokról , a Jé-törlésről vagy a szemnyelvjárásról a nyest.hu-n - Angol magánhangzó-csúszka a nyest.hu-n - Nádasdy: Az angol rövid u - Amy Walker: 21 accents - 24 accents - 30 accents (animated) - 35 accents - 67 accents - 68 accents - 20 British Accents in 1 Video - Englishes in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland -
Historical background illustrated: History of British & Irish Languages 400-2000 AD -
England: A torkolati angolról a nyest.hu-n - 'Th' sounds to vanish from the English language? - Arctic Monkeys: When the Sun Goes Down - "Call Me Maybe" Geordie cover - The Black Country - Last Haven of the Mercian Tongue - Learn the Cockney accent with Jason Statham :-) - How To Do A Liverpool/Scouse Accent In UNDER TWO MINUTES - NORTHERN vs. SOUTHERN accents - An ear for an aye – listening to England's dialect poetry - accents in England (with speech samples) - the sound map of England -
Ireland and Scotland: World Englishes Special Issue on Irish English - The Cranberries: Linger - The Cranberries: Ode to my Family - website of the Scots Language Centre (can be viewed in English or Scots) - online Dictionary of the Scots Language - The Main Dialects of Scots - Sheena Blackhall on Scots - Voice recognition elevator in Scotland - The Proclaimers: 500 Miles - Scots vs English in a poem - What does the Scots language have to do with Scottish identity? - 18 Words That Mean Something Totally Different To People In The North East Of Scotland - Kevin Bridges (stand-up comedy) - BBC The Social (videos) - Kiwi MP struggles with Scottish colleague's accent -
British Isles: British English quiz - British Accents: One Woman, 17 British Accents - A brief tour of the accents of the British Isles - English accents and dialects of the British Isles impressions
North America: American English quiz - The Dialects of American English - "Use Yah Blinkah" - Ace Linguist: Dialect Dissection: Britney Spears - Amy Walker: Deep Southern American - A glossary of Southern US English vocab - Family Guy: cool hwip :-) - When did Americans lose their British accents - 'Star Wars' actor Diego Luna (Mexican) - I'm the one - CORAAL (Online Resources for African American Language) - Canadian English quiz - the Canadian Vowel Shift -
Other varieties: Australian English quiz - The 3 Australian Accents - Santa and the Kiwi accent - Flight of the Conchords: "He maybe did" (New Zealand E.) - NZE monophthongs: paper and file/data repository - Trevor Noah (SAfE) on American English, on growing up during the apartheid in South Africa, and on being black in the US - South African Englishes (WE special issue) - Bob Marleyról és a jamaikai kreolról a nyest.hu-n - Bob Marley: Bad Card - Mattafix: Big City Life - Cheerleader - Haitian Creole coursebook and phrasebook -
Lexical variation: LADbible video UK vs US words - 10 Words Brits Use That Americans No Longer Do - British or American English quiz - British vs. American slang with Hugh Laurie - regional lexical variation in the US -
For fun: Future English - American toddlers are developing British accents because they're 'watching too much Peppa Pig' ;)
Film scenes: [should the youtube link be void -- which is frequently the case -- try to do a search and find the new location of the video]
Movie Accent Expert Breaks Down 32 Actors' Accents
England and Wales: What a Girl Wants (2003, checking-in scene) - Kes (1969, northern, scenes) - Billy Elliot (2000, northern, scenes) - "blagged" in Snatch (2000) - "Chevy Chase" and "bubble and squeak" & guns scene in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) - Loverly, Loverly karaoke :-), Just You Wait (film version, or sung by Julie Andrews), & teaching scenes from My Fair Lady - My Fair Lady (the whole film) with English subtitles (1964) - Robin Hood Season 1 promo (2006-, northern) - The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain (1995, Welsh English)
Scotland: My Name is Joe (1998, Scots - scenes)
US English: Tom Hanks' southern drawl (1994, Forrest Gump) - Brad Pitt's southern drawl (2009, Inglourious Basterds) - Marcellus Wallace's drawl in Pulp Fiction (1994)
Others: The Koala Brothers (2003-, Strine) - Gettin' Square courtroom scene (2003, Strine) - East is East (1999, northern + Pakistani, scenes) - West is West (2010, northern + Pakistani, full film) - West Side Story: America (1961, Chicano) - Brad Pitt talking patois ("Everyting gwarn be iree" - Meet Joe Black, 1998) -
