Re: Midatlantic Accent
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 19, 2002, 8:51 |
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At 14:24 2002-09-18 +0200, Eamon Graham wrote:
>Can anyone tell me any thing else about a "midatlantic accent" ?
>What characteristics would make an accent neither precisely British
>nor precisely American?
To my mind a "midatlantic accent" is most easily described as a rhotic
RP. The accent most Swedes acquire in school could be so described, and
RP-latrous educationalists percieve this as a problem. However the vowel
system of this Swedish-Atlantic accent corresponds more to a conservative
than a contemporary RP. Some Swedes have a rather American accent acquired
from watching American TV programs, but with a "preserved" distinction
between the vowels in LOT and FATHER.
/BP 8^)>
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