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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

Curious about Comtemporary RP Accent**

Hey. I just saw the word "Contemporary RP accent" from an english website yesterday and I wondered what it is.

Could anyone pls tell me what it is? and people in which region use it? ThanksEmotion: big smile
  

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htm Whereas according to the British Library's Accents and Dialects of the UK website in their section on London RP, the commentary says: "Michelle speaks with an accent most of us would immediately associate with a middle-class background. Many of the vowel sounds she uses have a traditional RP ring, but she also uses a number of pronunciations characteristic of contemporary RP . uk/learning/langlit/sounds/text-only/received-pronunciation/london / Make of this juxtaposition what you will...

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  • htm Whereas according to the British Library's Accents and Dialects of the UK website in their section on London RP, the commentary says: "Michelle speaks with an accent most of us would immediately associate with a middle-class background.
  • Many of the vowel sounds she uses have a traditional RP ring, but she also uses a number of pronunciations characteristic of contemporary RP .
  • uk/learning/langlit/sounds/text-only/received-pronunciation/london / Make of this juxtaposition what you will...
  • Hope that helps
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According to John Wells at University College London:

"I do not understand the proposed distinction between Mainstream RP and Contemporary RP (unless the writer thinks, wrongly, that ‘contemporary’ means ‘young’)."

You can read more of what he says about it at:
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