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My Fair Lady A Brief Introduction to the Scenario Professor Henry Higgins loves language. He believes that much of the nuances and grandeur of the spoken word is lost. When his friend Hugh Pickering bets that he cannot fool people in upper class into believing a woman from the streets is one of them, he gladly takes the challenge and chooses his protégé. With a fantastic, heavy Cockney accent, Eliza Doolittle, after much coercion, is selected to become his test subject. As he works with her on her diction, he slowly begins to develop an affection for the girl in spite of their glaring differences in age and backgrounds. Variation of Language The key point of the research into sociolinguistics is the variation of language. Variations are embodied in three aspects: pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Dialogue Analysis Look at dialogue 1 : Pickering：Im afraid not. Its worse than before. Eliza： If its worse, its a sign its nearly over. Cheer up, Captn, buy a flowr off a poor girl. Look at dialogue 2 : stranger：You be careful. Better give im a flower for it. Theres a bloke there behind that pillar...takin down every blessed word youre sayin. Eliza： I aint done nothin wrong by speakin to the gentleman. Ive a right to sell flowrs if I keep off the curb. Im a respectable girl, so help me. I never spoke to ‘im except to ask him to buy a flowr off me. Pronunciation The sociolinguist Trudgill (1990) has ever drawn an accent triangle, that is : She often curtails the vowel in words, such as flower-- flowr, captain-- Captn. She often clips the consonant /h/ in words, such as half-- alf, him—’im. She often pronounces /in/ instead of / i/, such as taking-- takin, speaking-- speakin. Typical features Glottal stop A study of schoolchildren living in the East End found /p,t,k/ glottalized in final position. Waterloo?= Wa’erloo? City?= Ci’y? A drink of water?= A drin a waer Dropped ‘h’ at beginning of words? TH fronting replace the/θ/ ?