Cockney: el acento de Londres

Pilar Fernández Rufete

Nuria Macías Sánchez

Cockney

Acento del sureste de Inglaterra

Principalmente Londres

Prestigio

Asociado a las clases obreras

Sin prestigio

Muchos personajes públicos no

esconden su acento, sino que lo

muestran con orgullo

Características

Vocalización del sonido /l/:

Milk: /mɪlk/ [mɪʊk]

Th-fronting process:

/θ/ = /f/: thin: /θɪn/ [fɪn]

/ð/ = /v/: together: /tə'geðə/

[tə'gevə]

/ð/ = /d/: they: /ðeɪ/ [deɪ]

Cambios en las vocales:

/eɪ/ [æɪ]:paper: /'peɪpə/

['pæɪpə]

/e/ [ɛɪ]: bed: /bed/ [bɛɪd]

/aɪ/ [ɒɪ]: inside: /ɪn'saɪd/

[ɪn'sɒɪd]

/i/ en posición final [i:]: city:

/'sɪti/ ['sɪti:]

Glottal stops

H-dropping process:

Hand: /hænd/ [ænd]

G-dropping process:

“-ing”: /ɪŋ/ [ɪn]

I came back to the bed, like, afterbreakfast. I was just like laying on it a little bit and reading the … the paper. And I don’t know, I thought suddenly I feel wet in my pyjamas. And I lookedinside, and put my hand in. I … it is wet. Well, how … how the dickens? I ain’tspilt any tea or anything down there. So I thought well, I know, I’ll go out in theablution place, like, there… they’ve gotsome little radiators, all little individual places got a little radiator, put my pyjamas on there to dry, I just thought itwas some water.