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Mancunian (or Manc) is a dialect, and the name given to the people of Manchester, England, and its environs. It is claimed that the accent has subconsciously changed the way people from other regions speak through television shows such as ''Coronation Street'' and bands such as Oasis, Joy Division and The Stone Roses. == Dialect == The dialect is distinguishable from other Northern English dialects. A major feature of the Mancunian accent is the over-enunciation of vowel sounds when compared to the flattened sounds of neighbouring areas. This is also noticeable with words ending in John C. Wells observed the accents of Leeds and Manchester. He found them to be similar despite the historic divide between the two sides of the Pennines. His proposed criteria for distinguishing the two are that Mancunians avoid Ng-coalescence, so singer rhymes with finger and king, ring, sing, etc. all end with a hard sound, and also that Leeds residents employ "Yorkshire assimilation", by which voiced consonants change into voiceless consonants in words such as Bradford , subcommittee and frogspawn .〔John C Wells, ''Accents of English 2: the British Isles'', pages 366–7, Cambridge University Press, 1982〕 The Mancunian dialect may have originally developed from the old Lancastrian dialects and could have been affected by the vast influx of immigrants introduced to the city during the Industrial Revolution, when the cities of Salford and Manchester became a port due to the building of the Manchester Ship Canal. Immigrants moved to the city for work opportunities from many parts of Europe, most notably Ireland. 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「Manchester dialect」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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