Standard spoken English: What is it?

[Molly]

[Molly]

(Rural or regional accents, by the way.)

Ah, I thought might have overlooked that. So, which accent does your "spoken standard BrEng" use/prescribe?

[Molly]

[Molly]

[Molly]

Back to the thread topic:

Is the concept of a "spoken standard English" unproblematic?

[Molly]

Back to the thread topic:

We (includes native English-speakers) know very little about the syntactic structure of spoken English. Do you agree?

[Molly]

When Mr P mentions "standard spoken (British) English" does he mean that English which is spoken by educated speakers in formal situations?

[Molly]

Why have most linguists failed to describe the grammar of speech?

[Molly]

And, looking at Mr P's description of what he calls "standard spoken (British) English" above, don't you think that he's referring to what should really be called "spoken standard (British) English"?

[Molly]

Is it true that written English has continued to be the reference point for the standard variety?

[MrPedantic]

<ten posts in one go>



Have you ever read Grimm's story of the brave little tailor, M?

MrP

[Molly]

[MrPedantic]

[Molly]

[MrPedantic]

I'll pass, if you don't mind. Too many.

MrP