• Go to guide to English varieties of the British Isles.
• Go to guide on language and gender.
• Go to guide on language and occupation.
• Go to guide on language and power.
• Go to guide to language and technology.
• Go to guide on pragmatics and speech acts.
• Go to guide to researching dialect by Barrie Rhodes.
• Go to guide on features of spoken English.
• Go to paper on dialect levelling and received pronunciation by Paul Kerswill.
• Go to discussion on Estuary English by Peter Trudgill and Paul Coggle.
• Read Joanna Przedlacka on Estuary English and RP. (pdf)
• Read Joanna Ryfa on Estuary English - a controversial issue? (pdf)
• Go to paper on RP and Standard English by Paul Kerswill.

Professor John Wells

Professor of Phonetics

Lots of usefil links PDF files including Estuary English

Accents and Dialects of the UK