![]() Kachru (1985) considered the Inner Circle varieties to be ‘norm-providing’ or ‘norm makers’. In the 20 th century, the Kachruvian concentric circles (Kachru 1998) helped to sort English speakers into speakers of English as a first (the Inner Circle), as an institutionalised (the Outer Circle), and as a foreign language (the Expanding Circle). Keywords: Phonetic changes, pronunciation dictionaries, allophony, yod coalescence, yod dropping, loan words, General British. The comparative analysis of the manifestation of the changes in the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (2008), the Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary (2011), and the Current British English Searchable Transcriptions (N/A) indicate their gradual way into the ‘standard’ language. Though the descriptive study resultsreveal a high degree of the respondents’ preference for ‘modern’ pronunciation, it varies across categories. The survey is based on the framework by Wells (1998). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The study consists of two stages to address the question from different perspectives: native speakers’ preferences and documentation of the changes in current pronouncing dictionaries.Sixty words likely to undergo one of the changes are chosen for the analysis. The pilot study reports on the prevalence of four phonetic changes (yod coalescence, yod dropping, /ʒ/ versus /ʤ/ in loan words, and GOAT allophony) in General British. ![]()
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