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Scottish English

Main features which you can notice in these videos are: 1. It is rhotic 2. strong pronounciation of r (often called burr ) 3. /r/ before /l/ is strong 4. Diphthongs in Standard English become monophthongs in Scottish English

5. Scottish vowel length rule it depends on their environment they are long in stressed syllables before /r/, /v/, /d/, //, /z/, / /, before another vowel and before a morpheme boundary, but short elsewhere.

Black English vernacular


Features of BEV 1.Non-rhotic 2.L is absent in word-final consonant clusters with labials (b, p, m) 3.Syllabic n replaces 4.Word inital d takes place of 5.Heavy inital stress in dysyllabic words

6. Multiple negation 7. Establishment of slang 8. Incorrect use of grammar

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