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omnicat in linguaphiles

A plea for help to British English speakers

Dec 06, 2008 18:27

(Note to self: no getting distracted by shiny tags until you've finished your homework.)

LJ, I need help. I DESPERATELY need help. And you're the only one I can turn to.

I'm studying English at the University of Amsterdam, and am currently working on a Phonology project. My research group needs to interview native speakers of British English, and we ( Read more... )

english, accents, english dialects, gender, speaker judgements

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biascut December 6 2008, 18:21:11 UTC

Can't seem to load your clips - I'm just getting a 404.

biascut December 6 2008, 18:29:13 UTC

Bah, sorry - I'd really like to do it, because it looks interesting, but even after I've replaced the _ with - in teh first URL, nothing on my Mac can read the format they've used. Sorry!

omnicat December 6 2008, 18:36:33 UTC

Ack, I'll see what I can do about that. Do you think you could answer any of the rest of the questions?

biascut December 6 2008, 18:58:54 UTC

Rest of it ( ... )

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72stroopwafels December 6 2008, 18:55:43 UTC

I can't get the clips to work either, but I'll give the other questions a go- is it OK to just post everything here?

omnicat December 6 2008, 18:58:59 UTC

Yes, it is. I'm working on the links - the strange thing is that the ones here on LJ give me 404's too, but when I open them straight from my research partner's e-mail, they work just fine. I'll let you know if/when it's fixed.

biascut December 6 2008, 19:00:17 UTC

The first one it's that the _ need to be -. I get the right page on the third one, but the links aren't in a format my computer can read.

72stroopwafels December 6 2008, 19:18:08 UTC

OK, here goes ( ... )

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pne December 6 2008, 20:31:29 UTC

Sex: Male ( ... )

pne December 6 2008, 20:31:39 UTC

Do you often use ‘tags’ at the end of a sentence (like “Heather arrived, didn't she?” “You didn’t close the door, did you?”)? And if so, why do you think you use them a lot? - Not especially often, no. Unless I'm asking a question. I don't use them much rhetorically, for example, like people who are telling a story like "And then I go up to the door, right, and there's this man who tells me 'blabla', doesn't he, etc. etc ( ... )

omnicat December 11 2008, 14:55:57 UTC

Thank you! You've been of great help. :D

hope this is ok - i'm running late here so may be brief but I wanted to help you out marmadukesphinx December 6 2008, 20:52:46 UTC

Sex: female ( ... )

Re: hope this is ok - i'm running late here so may be brief but I wanted to help you out marmadukesphinx December 6 2008, 20:52:57 UTC

A http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/text-only/received-pronunciation/harrow-school/ (RP male 1 ( ... )

Re: hope this is ok - i'm running late here so may be brief but I wanted to help you out omnicat December 11 2008, 14:56:35 UTC

Thank you for taking the time to help us out. We really appreciate it. :)