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Received Pronunciation (RP) is the accent traditionally regarded as the standard and most prestigious form of spoken British English.[1][2] For over a century, there has been argument over such questions as the definition of RP, whether it is geographically neutral, how many speakers there are, whether sub-varieties exist, how appropriate a choice it is as a standard, and how the accent has changed over time.[3] The name itself is controversial. RP is an accent, so the study of RP is concerned only with matters of pronunciation, while other areas relevant to the study of language standards, such as vocabulary, grammar, and style, are not considered.
^Wells (2008), p. xix, paragraph 2.1.
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^Cruttenden (2014), pp. 74–81.
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in the pronunciation of individual words in the lexicon (i.e. phoneme distribution). In this article, transcriptions use ReceivedPronunciation (RP) to...
consonant clusters.[page needed] General American and ReceivedPronunciation vary in their pronunciation of historical /r/ after a vowel at the end of a syllable...
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country. Speakers may also change their pronunciation and vocabulary, particularly towards ReceivedPronunciation and Standard English when in public. British...
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is the reconstructed phonology or pronunciation of Ancient Greek. This article mostly deals with the pronunciation of the standard Attic dialect of the...
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