ion or accent). English dialects may be different from each other, but all speakers within the English-speaking world can still generally understand them. A speaker from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, for instance, might pepper his speech with localized vocabulary, such as gan for "to go" or clarts for "mud". He may often use regional grammatical constructions, such as the past tense constructions I ve went and I ve drank or the reflexive pronouns mysel, yoursel, hissel etc. In addition he probably uses a range of local pronunciations. For all these reasons he could be described as a Geordie dialect speaker.are a huge number of dialects of English. First, they are the result of expansion of the British Empire, and then the influence of the US government around the world.The most common dialects of English - British, based in the southern UK. The second - is the US, based on well Mid-American.about 70% of native English speakers living in the US, this is the language option is becoming dominant in the study of English as a foreign language, although the previous tutorials and speech were largely based on the British version.
1.2 Key factors influencing the formation of dialect speech
history of development of any language is closely connected with history of development of the people speaking in this language. Therefore to study formation and development of this or that language it is impossible in a separation from deep studying of history of the state and the people. In this regard, the history of English can be divided into three periods: Old English, Middle English, new English, but V. D. Arakin allocates one more - the most ancient.of English language history by V. D. Arakin:
. The most ancient period - the period dated by time between the first centuries AD of the VII-VIII centuries. It is the period of language existence of Old English tribes which lay down then in a basis of an English nationality. These languages ​​possessed a number of qualitative signs which, however, can be restored only thanks to comparative-historical research as written monuments of this period we didn't reach;
. The Old English period (Anglo-Saxon) - VII-XI centuries, since invasion of the German tribes to the British Isles to a gain of Britain Normans (Normans) in 1066; it is the period of language of a developing English nationality;
. Middle English period - the period dated by time of wars of the XI-XV centuries, to feudal Scarlet and a White Rose (1455-1485) and publishing introductions in England (1477). It is the period of langua...
