000075214 001__ 75214 000075214 005__ 20180927145446.0 000075214 037__ $$aTAZ-TFG-2018-1422 000075214 041__ $$aeng 000075214 1001_ $$aEstage Cambra, Estela 000075214 24200 $$aWhere is RP going?: A Study of the British Royal Family's Speech 000075214 24500 $$aWhere is RP going?: A Study of the British Royal Family's Speech 000075214 260__ $$aZaragoza$$bUniversidad de Zaragoza$$c2018 000075214 500__ $$aResumen también disponible en español. 000075214 506__ $$aby-nc-sa$$bCreative Commons$$c3.0$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ 000075214 520__ $$aThis dissertation aims at tracing the evolution that Received Pronunciation has experienced from its origins to nowadays. This evolution is followed from a historical, social and linguistic perspective, which reveals that RP may be diluting into other varieties of British English. In order to test this hypothesis, the Refined RP of the Royal Family has been taken as a symbol of steadiness that may have been affected by these changes. For this purpose, a corpus of video files has been selected with data from 1953 to nowadays, taking Queen Elizabeth II and the heirs to the throne, Prince Charles and Princes William and Harry, as representatives of the Royal Family’s speech. Following the evolution of several phonetic and phonological features through the samples, it is concluded that the Queen’s and Prince Charles’s accents are moderately adapting to the new times while Princes William and Harry’s RP is much more advanced and similar to the general, educated speech of their young contemporaries. These results would imply that RP is rapidly changing and probably, therefore, merging into more modern varieties such as Estuary English. 000075214 521__ $$aGraduado en Estudios Ingleses 000075214 540__ $$aDerechos regulados por licencia Creative Commons 000075214 700__ $$aHornero Corisco, Ana María$$edir. 000075214 7102_ $$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bFilología Inglesa y Alemana$$cFilología Inglesa 000075214 8560_ $$f701997@celes.unizar.es 000075214 8564_ $$s844861$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/75214/files/TAZ-TFG-2018-1422.pdf$$yMemoria (eng) 000075214 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:75214$$pdriver$$ptrabajos-fin-grado 000075214 950__ $$a 000075214 951__ $$adeposita:2018-09-27 000075214 980__ $$aTAZ$$bTFG$$cFFYL 000075214 999__ $$a20180615120956.CREATION_DATE