

Cockney features
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Kate Nash
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Tony Blair
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Simon Reeve
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Glottalisation
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Yes, (e.g. li?e, star?ed, recen?ly)
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Partly / only sometimes (e.g. wha?, abou?, tha?, differen?, but not in: politics, taking, that)
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Partly / only sometimes (e.g. government?, bu?,Dorse? but: little, different, start, beauty)
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Monophthongisation
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Partly / only sometimes, (e.g. somehæ:, fæ:nd but: ara?nd, aba?t, a?tside)
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—
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Partly / only sometimes (e.g. abæ:?, but: ta?mes)
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H-dropping
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—
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—
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Partly / only sometimes (e.g. _imself, _ell, but: heading, holiday, horn)
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G-dropping
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Yes, (e.g. talkin, enjoyin, tryin)
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Partly / only sometimes (e.g. changin, gettin, but: taki?)
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—
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Post-vocalic /l/
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—
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Partly / only sometimes (e.g. schoo?s, but: sensible)
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—
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Th-fronting
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—
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—
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—
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Th-stopping
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Yes, (e.g. dat)
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—
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Yes, (e.g. dis, dere)
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Yod-dropping
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—
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—
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—
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Yod-coalescence
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—
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—
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—
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Vowel lowering
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Partly / only sometimes (e.g. bitt?, litt?, pitt?, but: whenev?, numb?)
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—
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—
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Vowel shift
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Partly / only sometimes (e.g. not in: fa?nd, ka?nd, tra?)
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—
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—
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Triphthongs
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—
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—
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—
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Others
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situational accent-switching
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condensed pronunciation, e.g. [‘g?n?]; situational accent-switching
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condensed pronunciation, e.g. [‘g?n?]; no accent-switching
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Fig. 6 Comparison table: Cockney changes
As can be noticed in figure 6, there are some features that are not used by any of the three speakers and occur only in a “full” Cockney accent. The other ones are chosen according to the speakers’ will – they prefer to pronounce one Cockney-like sound and to leave the other ones unchanged.
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