Anglosaská filmová tvorba
23 April: Billy Elliot
Accents spoken in the film:
Northern English
Features:
- Vowels:
/ʌ / →
/ʊ, ə/: cut,
punch, money, brother, X Mom
/ɑː/
→ /a/: grass, example, laugh
/əʊ/
→ monophthong /ɔː
/: so,
no, told
/eɪ/ → monophthong /e:/:
break,
change
/ɪə/ →
disyllabic /i:
ə/: here,
beer
- Consonants
velar /ŋ/ → /n/:
going,
sleeping, messing
glottalization of /t/ → / ʔ/: what, got, city
dropping
consonants: /h/, o’ course
Scottish /r/: → flap/tap
Use of English:
Northern vocabulary:
•naught → nothing
•bairn → child
•Ta-ra → Bye-bye
•“love” → a
general way to address (mostly) a woman
Do you remember what the following expressions/idioms mean?
- picket
- scab
- tutu
- Nana
- fat chance
- not to have a leg to stand on
- stand to reason