Differentiation of dialects in the united kingdom

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DIFFERENTIATION OF DIALECTS IN THE
UNITED KINGDOM
RODIONOVA ULIANA DMITRIEVNA 10B
SUPERVISOR: DEVITSKAYA MARIA VIKTOROVNA

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PURPOSE AND TASKS
Purpose: To study the peculiarities and differences of dialects in the countries that make up the UK.
Hypothesis: there is a significant difference between the dialects of Great Britain, expressed by pronunciation and other features of
speech.
Tasks:
1) Collect material from various sources on this topic
2) Analyze the collected material
3) Analyze politicians’ speeches
4) Highlight the main features of pronunciation
5) Systematize the information collected in paragraph 3 and 4

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SCOTTISH DIALECT. DAVID
LINDEN MP

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PHONETIC FEATURES OF
SCOTTISH DIALECT
Phonetic (seen in the Mr. Linden’s speech):
1) Soft British /r/ sounds much harder
(here in words “honorable”, “particularly”, “popular”)
2) Sound /t/ is replaced by a glottal stop
(here in words “gentlemen”, “getting”, “disabilities”)
3) No difference between short and long vowels
(here in words "work”, “freely”, “move”)

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SOME GRAMMAR AND LEXICAL
FEATURES
Grammar:
1) The use of state verbs in a long form
2) Changed rule of using Present Perfect (be + after + V-ing)
( I’m just after telling you = I have just told you)
3)
Reduction of the construction ‘’am not’’ to ‘’amn’t’’
Lexical:
3) Lots of borrowed words from Scots
(aye = yes, ken = know, braw = fine, loch = lake)
2) Replacing ‘’why’’ adverbs with ‘’how’’
3) Changed expression options
(Och aye the noo! – Well then!; Havers! = Nonsense!)

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WELSH DIALECT. JONOTHAN
EDWARDS MP

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PHONETIC FEATURES OF WELSH
DIALECT
Phonetic (seen in the Mr. Edwards’ speech):
1) Phrase ‘’Diolch yn fawr iawn’’ = “thank you so much”
2) The sound /t/ is replaced by /r/ in the middle of the words
(here in words “attention”, “identity”, “yesterday”)
3) Sound /ð/ is reduced
(here in words “this”, “these”)
4) Sound /h/ falls out in the beginning of words
(here in word “house”)

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SOME GRAMMAR FEATURES
Grammar:
1) Double negation construction
(I didn’t see no one)
2) Absence of the article ‘’an’’
(a apple)
3) Using the article ‘’a’’ before the gerund in the forms of continuous tenses
(I’m a-going now)
4) Absence of many irregular forms of passive participle
( ‘’drawed’’ instead of ‘’drawn’’)
5) Modified forms of reflexive pronouns
(hisself = himself, theirselves – themselves)

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IRISH DIALECT. GREGORY
CAMPBELL MP

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PHONETIC FEATURES OF IRISH
DIALECT
Phonetic (seen in the Mr. Campbell’s speech):
1) Highlighted sound /r/
(here in words like “regarding”, “murder”, “relatives”, “secretary” etc.)
2) Shortened vowels
(here in words like “outcomes”, “thousands”, “other”)
3) Soft sounding consonants
(in almost all words of Campbell’s speech)

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SOME GRAMMAR AND LEXICAL
FEATURES
Grammar:
1) The pronoun "you" has two forms: for the singular - "you" and for the plural - "ye"
(Did ye all read the paper?)
2) To describe events from the recent past, the construction after + gerund is used
(My car is after fixing/ She is after losing his job)
3) Changed structure in Conditional - auxiliary verb + the + gerund
(If I had the doing of that exam again, I would prepare better.)
Lexical:
1) Lots of borrowed words from Irish
(boxty = bacstaí - "traditional Irish potato pancakes"; banshee = bean sídhe - "a fairy-tale creature that looks like a fairy or a
witch”)

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RELEVANCE IN MODERN WORLD
The development of the study of dialects in the
English language at the professional scientific
level contributes to the progress of computer
technologies.
Automatic Speech Recognition is now used on all
browsers and messengers – a person can dictate
his request by voice and it will be automatically
reproduced to text.
However, differentiation of dialects cause a lot of
troubles in using it comfortably – the ASR
program usually doesn’t understand the words.

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!