English After RP

Geoff Lindsey is Honorary Lecturer in Linguistics, and Director of the Summer Course in English Phonetics, at University College London, UK. He works internationally as a pronunciation and accent tutor and is co-editor of the online dictionary CUBE. He has also worked in film and TV as a writer and director.

• Introduction: What was RP?.- Part I. Changes: General observations.- Chapter 1. The power of writing.- Chapter 2. The special relationship.- Chapter 3. Getting stronger.- Part II. Vowels.- Chapter 4. The anti-clockwise vowel shift.- Chapter 5. FLEECE, GOOSE and other diphthongs.- Chapter 6. GOAT, GOOSE and FOOT backing.- Chapter 7. A LOT more common.- Chapter 8. KIT – still going strong (but happY never existed).- Chapter 9. FOOT – even rarer, but still common!.- Chapter 10. Weak vowel merger.- Chapter 11. Two kinds of BATH.- Chapter 12. PRICE and MOUTH.- Chapter 13. The decline of the centring diphthongs.- Part III. Consonants.- Chapter 14. More aspiration (and affrication).- Chapter 15. /tʃ/ and /dʒ/ – a new si-chew-ation.- Chapter 16. /tʃ/ and /dʒ/ – a new chrend.- Chapter 17. Epen-t-thesis.- Chapter 18. Syllabic consonants – a little less certain.- Chapter 19. Glottal stops, part 1.- Chapter 20. Is /l/ following /r/?.- Chapter 21. G-dropping and H-dropping.- Chapter 22. Fings to come?.- Part IV. Stress.- Chapter 23. The love of alternating stress.- Chapter 24. Westwards toward America?.- Part V. Connected speech.- Chapter 25. Linking /r/.- Chapter 26. Glottal stops, part 2.- Chapter 27.Vocal fry.- Part VI. Intonation.- Chapter 28. Falls.- Chapter 29. Yes-no questions.- Chapter 30. Continuation patterns.- Chapter 31. Uptalk.- Part VII. Mini Dictionary.