Pronunciation of the “happy vowel” is one of the key indicators of social class in Mancunian accents, researchers have found. A sociolinguistic study, led by Lancaster Univers ...
Research shows the way Mancunians pronounce the final sound in words such as happy and city has remained remarkably stable despite decades of social change ...
Our accents give away more about social class than we think, according to new research led by Lancaster University.The new sociolinguistic study ...