He has added a fascinating chapter on the development of a language as a result of a nonnative speakers use of it. Peter trudgill is professor of sociolinguistics at the. Trudgill is one of the first to apply labovian sociolinguistic methodology in the uk, and to provide a framework for studying dialect contact phenomena. In each case, trudgill presents an intriguing puzzle, locates and examines the evidence, detects clues that unravel the mystery, and finally proposes a solution. Peter trudgill was born in norwich in 1943, and attended the city of norwich school. Peter trudgill is the honorary president of the friends of norfolk dialect society, and contributes a regular column on language and languages in europe to the new european newspaper. English accents and dialects is an essential guide to contemporary social and regional varieties of english spoken in the british isles today. Anyone with an interest in british rock and pop songs will have observed that there are rules concerning the way in which the words of these songs are pronounced.
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