The use of the intrusive, which some 20-30 years was care Marked, because, , are fortis, while, , are Tions between -, -, - are just as clearly makes you fmeik fju:], as you, what you, did you. Such assimilation can occur even on the borderline of two The assimilation of the following sounds: >, > , matted fmsetid], teaches fti:t f iz](as opposed to mattered fmsetad], teachers ).ĥ. RP retains in such morpheme endings as ~ed, -es, e.g. between better and Betty f beti], dollar f d^la] and dolly f d^li]). along with, interesting fmtrastirj] along withīut RP does not accept a loss of the - distinction in final open syllables (e.g. Servative form had and has the stronger, e.g. Which results in the use of the neutral where the more con A greater weakening of vowels in weakly stressed syllables, The pronunciation of British English in recent times".Ĥ. Perhaps the most striking of the changes which have affected Tower >, fire ffaia] > ffaa] now usually tranģ. Monophthongization of and when followed by (e.g.
The diphthongization of the RP and fu:] which in final position are often pronounced with a glide (e.g.
The main changes that have recently taken place in RP are as follows:ġ. The main changes in Received Pronunciation. Gimson claims that the exclusive purity of the classic RP has been diluted, as some features of regional types of speech are "received" now, though some 50 years ago those features were considered to be regional, non-RP. Though RP is carefully preserved by the public schools and the privileged class in England, the RP of today differs in some respects from the former refined RP used half a century ago.
It is often referred to as the 'prestige accent'. As almost all the leading positions in the Cabinet, the armed forces, the judiciary are occupied by those who have had public school education, RP is actually a social standard pronunciation of English. Jones, the author of Everyman's English Pronouncing Dictionary, puts it. RP is not taught at these schools, "it is absorbed automatically by the pupils", as D. RP is spoken all over Britain by a comparatively small number of English people (from 3 to 5 per cent) who have the most privileged education in the country - public school education, public schools being the best and most expensive fee-paying schools in the country. there is no region in Britain to which it is native. It is mainly based on the Southern English regional type of pronunciation, but it has developed its own features which have given it a non-regional character, i.e. It was accepted as the phonetic norm of English about a century ago. It is generally considered that the orthoepic norm of British English is "Received Pronunciation" (RP). On the other hand, some of the pronunciations, which had been acceptable, fall out of use, are labelled as 'old-fashioned' and are, consequently, excluded from the norm. Though attempts are generally made to preserve the norm as it is, new pronunciations which are in common use gradually become 'acceptable' and are included into the norm. It is used by the most educated part of the population. It comprises the variants of pronunciation of vocabulary units and prosodic patterns which reflect the main tendencies in pronunciation that exist in the language. The orthoepic norm of a language is the standard pronunciation adopted by native speakers as the right and proper way of speaking.