MLE

Question 1

What is MLE?

Answer 1

dialect of London English which has emerged early 1980’s where in London been high levels of immigration

Question 2

What’s included

Answer 2

east end cockney dialect

Question 3

examples

Answer 3

grime artists ‘man’ such as Big Shaq ‘mans not hot’ new personal pronoun too replace ‘I’

Question 4

Features

Answer 4

goose vowel /u:/ in words like ‘food’ pronounced further forward in the mouth
pragmatic marker ‘you get me’ used as informal tag question