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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56770-4In RP, aspiration of /p/, /t/ and /k/ was restricted to stressed syllables. It’s now general, except after fricatives, especially /s/. In the case of /t/, the plosive is generally affricated, [tˢ].

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Introduction What Was RP?,Around the beginning of the nineteenth century, something remarkable happened in Great Britain. All over the country, people at the top of society began to change the way they spoke: they began to adopt the speech patterns of the upper classes in the London area.

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Chapter 5 FLEECE, GOOSE and Other DiphthongsDespite the familiar RP symbols /iː/ and /uː/, it’s long been known that these two vowels are diphthongs, behaving like the other closing diphthongs of English. Their diphthongal character is now rather more pronounced than it was in RP. More accurate symbols are [ɪj] and [ʉw].

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Chapter 7 A LOT More CommonThe vowel of LOT is now less open than in RP, [ɒ] > [ɔ]. It has widely replaced the THOUGHT vowel in words like . and . and for many speakers is replacing the GOAT vowel in words like . and ..