Cockney and Queen's English have all but disappeared among young people – here's what's replaced them (theconversation.com)

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Cockney and received pronunciation (Queen’s English) were once spoken by people of all ages, but they are no longer commonly spoken among young people in the south-east of England.

In new research, colleagues and I recorded the voices of 193 people between the ages of 18 and 33 from across south-east England and London. We then built a computer algorithm which “listened” to how they spoke and grouped them by how similarly they pronounced vowels in different words.

We identified three main accents:standard southern British English, multicultural London English and estuary English.

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[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 37 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Sample size of 193... Then using an unproven computer program to analyse vocal patterns.

[-] Knitwear@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

Even putting such obvious flaws aside the title could just be "study shows that accents do what they've always done"

[-] Steve@startrek.website 9 points 9 months ago

Not a great sample size init

[-] uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 9 months ago

This is just another study confirming what has been known for years. MLE is the multicultural expansion of cockney. Much of the accent survives, but has been modified by exposure to many cultures. Its been identified as the dominant native london accent foresomething like a decade.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 6 points 9 months ago

fr fr no cap

[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Innit tho, bruv.

[-] SuperJetShoes@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Yorkshire here. Get a train on the east coast mainline to Leeds (they're hourly) and increase your sample size to include Northern accents this improving the quality of your report from "being south of Watford".

[-] theinspectorst@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

How would travelling to Leeds help with a study of what accents are spoken in the south-east of England?

How would you react if a piece of research on the variety of accents spoken in Yorkshire included fieldwork from Wimbledon and Hemel Hempstead?

[-] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 3 points 9 months ago

Let's throw another shrimp on the Barbie!

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