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Dublin English
Local Dublin English
Non-vernacular Dublin English
Dissociation, hypercorrection
Switch-over accent
Mergers and splits
Advanced Dublin English
Conservative Dublin English
Accents on the edge of Dublin
Dublin English in the 1990s
Combined accents of Dublin English
Other varieties of English
General Irish English
Ulster English
Newfoundland English
Local Dublin English
AI-centralisation (local Dublin speaker)
Lack of retraction of TRAP before voiceless velar stop with local female Dublin speaker
BIT BET BAT BUT BID BED BAD BUD (local speaker)
BOUGHT BEER (local speaker)
Breaking of AI
Breaking of I
CAR with tensing before R
CAR with tensing plus R deletion
CHOICE — no raising with local Dublin speaker
CHOICE with raised onset 1
CHOICE with raised onset 2
Local Dublin speaker without CUT-PUT distinction
DUBLIN (two pronunciations)
Dublin with U
FARM_with_low_rhoticity
Final-T-Deletion (male local Dublin)
GOAT with glottalisation
KIT SORRY (local speaker Dublin)
LAW LOW (local female speaker)
Low Rhoticity (local Dublin)
Medial T-to-H (local speaker)
MONTH with U (local Dublin)
NURSE-TERM-Distinction (local speaker)
PreRhotic A-Tensing (local Dublin, 1)
PreRhotic A-Tensing (local Dublin, 2)
PreRhotic A-Tensing (local Dublin, wordlist style)
PUT FOOT IT with glottalisation
TERM with long low mid front vowel
T-Glottalisation (local Dublin)
BOUGHT Open (local speaker Dublin) 1
BOUGHT Open (local speaker Dublin) 2
T-to-H medially (local speaker)
WALKED with low back vowel
WET with glottal stop
Non-vernacular Dublin English
AU-Fronting 1 (female Dublin)
AU-Fronting 2 (female Dublin)
BIT BET BAT BUT BID BED BAD BUD (non-local speaker)
BOUGHT with T-flapping (non-local speaker)
BOUGHT with raised vowel
BUT BUG (fronted realisation non-local south Dublin)
BUT BUG (somewhat raised vowel)
CHOICE — raised onset with non-local Dublin speaker - 1
CHOICE — raised onset with non-local Dublin speaker - 2
Dental # alveolar distinction (non-local Dublin)
DUB FastDelivery (non-local female)
FARM with high rhoticity
FIELD (two types of velarisation)
FILM with schwa epenthesis, 1
FILM with schwa epenthesis, 2
GOOSE fronting (non local speaker 1)
GOOSE fronting (non local speaker 2)
HAPPY tensing
LEFT with vowel lowering (young female Dublin)
LETTER with lowering (young female Dublin)
Identical realisation of MORNING and MOURNING
The KIT-KISS distinction – realised by the words KIT, SORRY (non-local Dublin speaker)
Different realisations of LAW and THOUGHT
L-velarisation with non-local speaker (moderate)
L-velarisation with non-local speaker (extreme)
MORNING MOURNING Merger (non-local Dublin)
RUN BUS (non-local speaker)
SOFT lengthening with young non-local female speaker from Dublin
STYLE with velarised L
T frication (non-local Dublin)
T IntervocalicTap (non-local speaker Dublin) 1
T IntervocalicTap (non-local speaker Dublin) 2
T IntervocalicTap (non-local speaker Dublin) 3
T IntervocalicTap (non-local speaker Dublin) 4
THEY with dental D (non-local Dublin)
THOUGHT raised (non-local speaker Dublin) 1
THOUGHT raised (non-local speaker Dublin) 2
THOUGHT raised (non-local speaker Dublin) 3
TRAP with A (non-local speaker)
T-tapping in There-s a--leTTer
Uptalk (High Rising Terminal) 1
Uptalk (High Rising Terminal) 2
Velarised-L (non-local speaker Dublin) 1
Velarised-L (non-local speaker Dublin) 2
WATER with intervocalic flap
WET with fricative T
WHICH-WITCH-NoDistinction (non-local Dublin)
Dissociation, hypercorrection
SPARE with slight rounding
SQUARE (rounding old Dublin 4 accent)
STRUT-vowel central with slight rounding (sample word: bus)
WATER and LETTER with [t] rather than [ʔ] (local Dublin speaker)
Switch-over accent
Sample Sentences
BOUGHT BEER (with hesitation)
Mergers and splits
LAW THOUGHT no split (conservative Dublin)
LAW THOUGHT Split (young female Dublin)
MARRY MERRY MARY Distinction (conservative Dublin)
MERRY MARY (slight distinction)
MERRY MARY merger
MERRY MARY merger (speaker 1)
MERRY MARY merger (speaker 2)
Advanced Dublin English
Retraction of TRAP before voiceless velar stop with three non-local female Dublin speakers
BACK (3 advanced speakers)
BACK (advanced+conservative)
BACK (moderate extreme ejective)
BACK (non-local Dublin 2011)
BACK BAG (young female Dublin)
BACK ejective (moderate)
BACK with Q (3 speakers)
BIT with lowering (speaker 2)
Celbridge with lowering of first vowel
D with slight affrication (advanced Dublin English)
DIP with slight lowering 1
DIP with slight lowering 2
DIP DRESS BACK LOT (non-local speaker)
DIP DRESS BACK LOT BUS (advanced speaker, 1)
DIP DRESS BACK LOT BUS (advanced speaker, 2)
DIP DRESS TRAP with lowering (young female non-local Dublin, 1)
DIP DRESS TRAP with lowering (young female non-local Dublin, 2)
DIP DRESS TRAP with lowering (young female non-local Dublin, 3)
DO + DOWN with complete fronting
DRESS vowel with slight lowering
DRESS vowel with moderate lowering
DRESS vowel with extreme lowering
DRESS vowel with three degrees of lowering in succession
Factory with BACK retraction
FIELD with low offglide to L (young female Dublin)
GAP with A and L velarisation (non-local speaker).mp3
GOAT diphthongisation (strong-male speaker)
GOOSE-fronting with young female Dublin speaker – 1
GOOSE-fronting with young female Dublin speaker – 2
Monkstown with vowel raising before nasal
MORNING with nasal raising
MOUTH two extremes
MOUTH-fronting (5 stages)
Extreme MOUTH-fronting
On the Left (young female Dublin)
Performances with NORTH-raising
SELL with considerable lowering (non-local speaker)
Television with vowel lowering
Twelve with vowel lowering
WEST WET with vowel lowering
Accents on the edge of Dublin
Ashbourne – Co. Meath
Bray – Co. Wicklow
Celbridge – Co. Kildare
Leixlip – Co. Kildare
Skerries – Co. Dublin
Conservative Dublin English
Conservative Dublin speaker with CUT-PUT distinction
FIELD with alveolar L (conservative Dublin speaker)
FOR # FOUR distinction (conservative Dublin)
The KIT-KISS distinction (conservative Dublin speaker)
PUT — PUSS — PUSH (conservative Dublin speaker)
Identical realisations of LAW and THOUGHT
Alveolar L (conservative Dublin speaker)
MORNING MOURNING Distinction (conservative Dublin)
NORTH FORCE Distinction (conservative Dublin)
PUT PUSS PUSH (conservative Dublin speaker)
RTE Older Presenter
TIN # THIN distinction (conservative Dublin speaker)
TIE # THIGH distinction (conservative Dublin speaker)
T-lenited S SH distinctions
TRAP Conservative Realisation
WHICH-WITCH Distinction (conservative Dublin)
Dublin English in the 1990s
AI-retraction (speaker has Dublin4 accent from the 1990s)
Dublin 4 accent (female speaker born in the early 1970s)
Combined accents of Dublin English
CHOICE (no raising-raising)
GOAT-diphthongisation, 3 degrees
Different degrees of GOAT-diphthongisation with different speakers
Retroflexion scalar (Dublin speakers)
RTE (four pronunciations)
General Irish English
Alveolar-L (local speaker Kerry)
Alveolar-L (rural speaker from Carlow)
AU-NoFronting (rural speaker from Carlow)
AU NoFronting (local speaker Kerry)
Bagenalstown – Co. Carlow
BATH short (local speaker Kilkenny)
Carlow Alveolar-L
Carlow AU-NoFronting
Carlow M 20 (sample sentences)
Carlow SORE-NoRetroflexion
FACE-breaking (Dundalk speaker)
GOAT with monophthongal [o:] (local speaker from Co. Kerry, south-west Ireland)
NORTH — mid pronunciation (Co. Kerry, local speaker)
NORTH very open (local speaker Kilkenny)
NORTH and FORCE (local speaker from Kilkenny city)
SOFT short vowel (local speaker Kerry)
SORE non-retroflex (rural speaker Carlow)
SORE non-retroflex (rural speaker Kerry)
THERE with alveolar stop (local speaker)
They Keep a Goose in the Backyard (Cobh-M 40)
THOUGHT with alveolar stop (rural speaker)
Uvular R (speaker from Cavan)
Uvular R (speaker from Drogheda)
WHICH voiceless (speaker from Sligo)
Ulster English
AI – Tensed Realisation
DH – Intervocalic Deletion
FACE – Vowel Breaking
KIT – Vowel Lowering
Lack of Distinctive Vowel Length
Retroflex R
T – Intervocalic Tap
TRAP – Vowel Retraction
Velar Palatalisation
Belfast accent, young male
Derry accent, young male
DH – Alveolar (speaker from Cavan)
DH-L – shift (male Derry city)
Sentence ‘They didn’t bother to meet him’ spoken by Ulster Scots speaker
Newfoundland English
Newfoundland Irish English (sample 1)
Newfoundland Irish English (sample 2)
Text passages
Local Dublin speaker
Non-local Dublin speaker
Ulster Scots speaker
