English Accents and Dialects is an essential guide to the varieties of English spoken in Britain and Ireland today.<br> <br> Together with invaluable overviews of numerous regional accents and dialects, this fifth edition provides you with a set of diagnostic tools to help you identify Received Pronounciation as well as several major non-standard varieties of English. The main regional differences are followed by a survey of speech in over 20 areas of the UK and Ireland, audio samples of which are available online free for you to download.<br> <br> In this fifth edition, accent and dialect are discussed within the broader framework of language variation, including phonetic, phonological, grammatical, lexical, historical and stylistic differences.<br> <br> Thoroughly updated to include recent findings on London English, Aberdeen English and Liverpool English, Englsih Accents and Dialects, Fifth Edition also contains:<br> <br> *New entries on Hull, Manchester, Carlisle, Middlesbrough, Southampton, West London, Lancashire and the Shetlands<br> <br> *Over 20 audio recordings free for you to download from www.hodderplus.com/linguistics<br> <br> *Additional exercises to accompany the new varieties and answers online<br> <br> *Even clearer maps<br> <br> *The latest International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) chart