clerk yerd
for
yard, fermer
for
farmer
etc. Thus, Cockney was not constant historically, as there
is a mutual influence between the literary and dialect forms o f
speech3. There are also some differences o f Cockney in word ac
centuation and intonation which is characterized by the specific
rhythm, stress shifts and prolongation o f vowel sounds in speech
though the letter is not phonological in it.
III.3 . THE PRONUNCIATION TYPES OF ENGLISH
IN THE USA AS COMPARED W ITH
GENERAL BRITISH
English was brought to the A m erican continent by the Eng
lish colonists in the first h alf o f the sixteenth century. There are at
1 E. Sivertsen. Cockney phonology. Oslo studies in English, № 8, 1960. p. 104-106,
120.
2 C.M. Wise. Applied Phonetics. N.C. 1957, p. 250-252.
3 В.Н. Ярцева. Развитие национального литературного английского языка. М.,
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