Accents of English is about the way English is pronounced by different people in different places.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Volume I: An Introduction: Preface; Typographical conventions and phonetic symbols; Part I. Aspects of Accent: 1. Linguistic and social variability; 2. Accent phonology; 3. How accents differ; 4. Why accents differ; Part II. Sets and Systems: 5. The reference accents; 6. Standard lexical sets; 7. Systems: a typology; Part III. Developments and Processes: 8. Residualisms; 9. British prestige innovations; 10. Some American innovations; 11. Some further British innovations; Sources and further reading; References; Index.