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Estuary English is an English accent associated with South East England, especially the area along the River Thames and Thames Estuary. Phonetician John C. Wells proposed a definition of Estuary English as "Standard English spoken with the accent of the south-east of England", although he criticised the notion that the spread of language from London to the south-east was anything new. The name comes from the area around the Thames, particularly its Estuary. Estuary English can be heard from some people in London, north Surrey, north Kent, south Hertfordshire and south Essex. Estuary English shares many features with Cockney, and there is some debate among linguists as to where Cockney speech ends and Estuary English begins. The variety first came to public prominence in an article by David Rosewarne in the ''Times Educational Supplement'' in October 1984. Rosewarne argued that it may eventually replace Received Pronunciation in the south-east. Studies have indicated that Estuary English is not a single coherent form of English; rather, it consists of some (but not all) phonetic features of working-class London speech spreading at various rates ''socially'' into middle-class speech and ''geographically'' into other accents of south-eastern England.〔(A handout ) by John C. Wells, one of the first to write a serious description of the would-be variety. Also summarised by him here ().〕 ==Name== The scholar Alan Cruttenden uses the term London Regional General British〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/general-british )〕 in preference to the popular term 'Estuary English'. The names listed above may be abbreviated: * Estuary English → EE * London Regional General British → London General, London Regional GB,〔 London RGB〔 Some authors〔Such as 〕 use different names for EE closer to Cockney (''Popular London'') and EE closer to Received Pronunciation (''London Regional Standard'' or ''South-Eastern Regional Standard''). Note that some other authors〔Such as 〕 use the name ''Popular London'' to refer to Cockney itself. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Estuary English」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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