Register variation in spoken British English

The perfect in spoken British English 1

The English perfect construction involves the perfect auxiliary HAVE followed by a verb in the past participle form. It occurs in several subtypes according to the inflectional form of the auxiliary. The most frequently occurring is the present perfect, as in She has seen them. The other subtypes are the past perfect (She had seen them), the infinitival perfect (She must have seen them), and th...

Intonational variation in urban dialects of English spoken in the British Isles

Acoustic and articulatory variation in British Asian English liquids

Previous auditory and acoustic research reports variation in /l/ between ‘Asian’ and ‘Anglo’ speakers of British English, with Asian speakers producing ‘clearer’ realisations of /l/ than Anglo speakers from the same geographical region [8, 11, 22]. Whilst research on /r/ in British Asian English suggests variable rhoticity [8, 9], less work has documented /r/ variation in this community in non-...

Contemporary change in modal usage in spoken British English: mapping the impact of ‘genre’

Previous studies have focused on written English and only occasionally have they considered the question of whether these changes are affected by text type. The default assumption appears to be that change over time in written English is representative of changes more generally and that, if text type makes a difference, the effect of this variation is minor. However, synchronic studies in both ...

The British hepatic angiosarcoma register.

A register of British cases of primary hepatic angiosarcoma (HAS) was established in 1974 to monitor the occurrence of cases from 1963 onwards. Details of cases dying in 1963-77 have been obtained. Thirty-five cases were agreed as HAS by panel of liver pathologists, and occupational and medical information was obtained in the majority of these. Two cases were attributable to VCM exposure, and e...