The change of british accents from everyday speech to vocal performance: alex turner and adele /

This paper looks at the diachronic change of accents of two artists, Adele, who is from North London and speaks with a Cockney accent, and Alex Turner, the singer-songwriter from the band The Arctic Monkeys who is from Yorkshire and speaks with a Yorkshire accent. Simpson’s (1999) USA-5 model was ad...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Šlėderytė, Akvilė
Format: Bachelor Thesis
Language:Lithuanian
English
Published: Institutional Repository of Vilnius University 2023
Subjects:
Adele
Alex Turner
Cockney
General American
singing accent
spoken accent
Yorkshire
Adelė
Aleksas Turneris
koknio akcentas
amerikiečių akcentas
dainavimo akcentas
kasdieninis akcentas
jorkšyro akcentas
Arctic
Online Access:https://repository.vu.lt/VU:ELABAETD192840575&prefLang=en_US
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Summary:This paper looks at the diachronic change of accents of two artists, Adele, who is from North London and speaks with a Cockney accent, and Alex Turner, the singer-songwriter from the band The Arctic Monkeys who is from Yorkshire and speaks with a Yorkshire accent. Simpson’s (1999) USA-5 model was adapted for the three accents under analysis: Cockney, Yorkshire and General American in order to observe if the native accents employed by each artist changed and adapted features of the General American accent. This study found that both Adele’s and Turner’s singing accents went through a change and adhered more to the American accent, while their spoken accents did not develop those features.

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