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Description: | David talks about how he has begun to turn his life around since he received a grant from The Prince’s Trust. Stafford is a town to the south of Stoke-on-Trent. The Prince's Trust, founded in 1976 by The Prince of Wales, is dedicated to improving the lives of disadvantaged young people in the UK. The Trust has become the UK's leading youth charity, offering a range of opportunities including training, personal development, business start up support, mentoring and advice.
lexis
cause = because; poodle = to move in a leisurely manner (colloquial); quid = pound (colloquial)
phonology
H-dropping; occasional T-glottaling; + V ® [r/]; affrication of /t/ (achievement [@tSi:vm@nts], great [gr/eits], equipment [Ikwepm@nts], percent [p@sEnts], sorted [sO:tsId], committee [k@metsi:], straight [str/eits], support [s@pO:ts], respect [r/IspEkts] and time [tsa:Im]); elision of utterance final /t/ (got a price list for all that [Da] and did that [Da])
GOAT [VU]; FACE [ei]; PRICE [a:I]; NURSE [I:]; GOOSE [}:]; STRUT [U]; BATH [a]; KIT [I ~ e]; happY [i ~ i:]; lettER [e]
® [}:k]
note also (be)cause [kUz ~ bIkUz], they [DI], to a [t@r/@] police officer, to a [t@r/@] training camp and to a [t@r/@] mountain, didn’t [dInt], nothing [nUTIn], one [wQn], going to [gUn@] and wrong [r/QNg]
grammar
verbal inflection with I (I says)
preterite give ((he) give me some magazines, some books)
zero to + infinitive (they’re not going _ help me; see how much it’s going _ cost for all the equipment)
multiple negation (it won’t go nowhere now; didn’t hear nothing from them)
preterite done (I done a deal with a climbing shop)
zero plural marker on noun (three-hundred-and-eighty pound)
note the construction they’re not going help me = they aren’t going to help me | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | BBC | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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