scholarly journals “Whey Aye My Good Sir”: Has Cheryl Fernandez-Versini’s Accent Moved from Tyneside English to RP?

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-19
Author(s):  
Victoria Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Speech Community ◽  
Socioeconomic Mobility ◽  
Time Points ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Face ◽  
Intermediate Time ◽  
Received Pronunciation ◽  
Time Point

This article analyses the speech of Cheryl Fernandez-Versini (nee Tweedy, formerly Cole), henceforth “Cheryl” , who experienced rapid geographical and socioeconomic mobility between 2002 and 2014. In 2002, Cheryl was a working-class 19-year-old from Newcastle Upon Tyne, north-east England. Since then, she has risen to fame on the talent show Popstars: The Rivals , in the girl band Girls Aloud , through her marriage to footballer Ashley Cole, and through her work as a judge on The X Factor , among other things. This paper seeks to analyse the effect this has had on her accent.Four recordings between 2002 and the present day are analysed to discuss changes to her original Tyneside English (TE) accent, specifically through the changing phonetics of the FACE  and the GOAT  vowels. These changes are discussed in terms of both the TE speech community and Cheryl’s personal experiences. The  two vowels have traditional diphthongs in TE which are different from the diphthongs in Received Pronunciation (RP). However, these vowels have been found to be undergoing dialect levelling, with many TE speakers producing them as the monophthongs found in the rest of the North (Watt 2000, 2002). The paper therefore investigates whether Cheryl follows the pattern of other TE speakers or moves towards RP.The recordings used are taken from online videos of interviews. The first time point studied is 2002, when Cheryl first rose to fame through Popstars: The Rivals , in which her GOAT  and FACE  vowels are shown to be the Northern monophthongs which have resulted from dialect levelling in TE. The intermediate time points studied are 2006 and 2011. In 2006, Cheryl was engaged to Ashley Cole and had been living and working in the south of England for 4 years. Both vowels move closer to RP in position but remain monophthongal. The 2011 recording is an interview in the US, during Cheryl’s brief career on American X Factor. The data for this time point are particularly interesting as the position of the vowels varies more, and the average position of both vowels does not fit the pattern of change, indicating style-shifting. The 2014 recording was the most recent interview of substantial length which could be found at the time of data collection. The analysis shows that Cheryl’s GOAT  vowel is significantly closer to RP than it was in 2002, despite remaining a monophthong, while her FACE  vowel appears to have become a diphthong as in RP.The results show that Cheryl does undergo lifespan change in these two vowels, being closer to RP at the time of writing than in 2002. However, the two intermediate time points studied show that these vowels do not change in parallel, as predicted by Watt (2000). The intermediate time points, in particular the 2011 data, give support to the conclusions of Rickford and Price (2013) and Bowie (2009) that in order to fully understand data on lifespan change, intermediate time points and factors other than age must be taken into account.

Levelling across the life‐span?: Tracing the face vowel in panel data from the North East of England

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Buchstaller ◽  
Anne Krause ◽  
Anja Auer ◽  
Stefanie Otte
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Life Span ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The Face

scholarly journals Influence of socio-economic indicators and territorial networks at the spatiotemporal spread dynamics of Covid-19 in Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Da Guia Albuquerque ◽  
Jefferson Rodrigues dos Santos ◽  
Angelita Fialho Silveira ◽  
Dardo Lorenzo Bornia Junior ◽  
Rozele Borges Nunes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Vulnerability Index ◽  
Social Vulnerability Index ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Brazilian Government ◽  
Basic Sanitation ◽  
Spread Dynamics ◽  
The Face

This work aims to provide an overview of the territorial evolution of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) in Brazil using socio-demographic variables, for the time span between February 26, 2020 until January 24, 2021. Socio-demographic indicators, basic sanitation infrastructure data, and epidemiological bulletins were integrated using Principal Components Analysis (PCA) to develop a social vulnerability index (SVI), to estimate the degree of exposure risk of the Brazilian population to COVID-19. The results indicate that the majority of confirmed cases were reported from the main Brazilian capitals, linked to well-developed port and airport modes. In terms of deaths, the states of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Ceará and Pernambuco were at the top of the ranking. On the contrary, there were some states of the mid-west (Mato Grosso do Sul) and the north (Acre, Amapá, Roraima, Rondônia and Tocantins), that recorded low mortality indexes. The SVI reveals that the states of the north and north-east are the most vulnerable. Regarding the metropolitan areas, it was observed that the main capitals of the north and north-east, with the exception of Salvador, present significantly more critical numbers in terms of dissemination and deaths by COVID-19 than the capitals of the south-southeast, where the SVI is lower. The comparative exception was Santa Catarina state metropolitan areas. Finally, as the virus does not strike everyone in the same way, one of the great challenges is to search for solutions to cope with COVID-19 in the face of very unequal realities. Thus, a reflection on the strategies adopted by the Brazilian government is relevant, while considering the continental dimensions and the diversity of the Brazilian regions, to obtain a better analysis of the more vulnerable populations and social groups.

scholarly journals Research in the real world

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Paxton ◽  
Peter Kennedy ◽  
John Carpenter
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Real World ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Front Line ◽  
New Approach ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The Us ◽  
Service Redesign

A new approach to research and development (R&D) for mental health services is developing in the North-East, Yorkshire and Humber. It derives from experience with service redesign using the ‘collaborative’ approach developed by the US Institute for Health Improvement. Kennedy & Griffiths (2003) described such an approach involving 37 mental health trusts, each with a multidisciplinary team, with the aim of improving acute in-patient wards. After studying the patient's journey through care they agreed a set of improvement targets that all teams would work to achieve. Progress towards targets was measured and reported by all teams, who met periodically to compare performance and learn from each other. Remarkable energy to achieve objectives was released among front-line staff involved. Focus was sustained on what most concerned and benefited patients. Good ideas and results quickly spread to all these services affecting thousands of patients.

A Conservative Party? Pots and People in the Hebridean Neolithic

2018 ◽  
Vol 84 ◽  
pp. 257-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Copper ◽  
Ian Armit
Keyword(s):  
Conservative Party ◽  
Recent Analysis ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Adaptive Capabilities ◽  
Initial Appearance ◽  
The Face

Recent analysis of the ceramic assemblage from the Neolithic loch islet settlement of Eilean Dòmhnuill, North Uist, in the Western Isles of Scotland has highlighted the intense conservatism of the potting traditions over a period of more than 800 years. Hebridean Neolithic pottery exhibits clear relationships with pottery from Argyll, Arran, and Bute, as well as Orkney and the north-east mainland of Scotland. It appears to have developed a distinctive, often decoratively elaborate regional form very soon after its initial appearance, which subsequently appears to have undergone little or no significant change until the introduction of Grooved Ware in the early 3rd millenniumbc. An association exists between large assemblages of elaborately decorated Hebridean pottery and a number of artificial islets in freshwater lochs, some very small and producing little or no evidence for domestic activities. This might be explained by the importance of commensality in mediating relations between small communities in the Western Isle at such sites following the introduction of agriculture in the 2nd quarter of the 4th millenniumbc. The conservatism and stasis evident at Eilean Dòmhnuill, in the face of environmental decline, raises wider issues around the adaptive capabilities of the first farming communities prior to significant social changes in the earlier 3rd millenniumbc.

Some Romano-British Sculptures from Ancaster and Wilsford, Lincolnshire

1961 ◽  
Vol 41 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 229-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. S. Frere
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Kind Permission ◽  
The Core ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The Face

The purpose of this paper is to record three stones recently brought to my attention. The first was found about twenty years ago by Mr. Benjamin Wyles when digging a dyke in a field called the Long Liner near Slate House Farm, in the parish of Wilsford near Grantham. It is preserved in Wilsford church and is published by the kind permission of the Rector, the Rev. J. D. Smart. The other two, which are fragmentary, were found in the core of the north-east buttress of the east of Ancaster church in the course of reconstruction during August 1960. The wall, which is of the late twelfth century with flat plain buttresses, has had a fourteenth century window inserted into it, and has been repaired and refaced possibly at same time as the insertion of the window. There remain traces of the jamb-shafts and arch-springing of the original triple twelfth-century window. The wall developed serious settlement-cracks, and these were bonded by inserting concrete tie-beams behind the face of the wall, and at the same time grouting the loose core. Both stones are likely to have been built into the buttress in the twelfth century. I am indebted to Mr. L. H. Bond, L.R.I.B.A., for bringing them and the above facts to my notice, and to the Rev. L. W. B. Bacon, Vicar of Ancaster, for permission to publish.

scholarly journals Socio-economic deprivation and admission rates to secure forensic psychiatry services

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 294-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy W. Coid
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Psychiatry ◽  
Social Deprivation ◽  
Allocation Of Resources ◽  
District Health ◽  
Admission Rates ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Formula ◽  
Geographical Locations

Annual admission rates from the North-East Thames Region to maximum- and medium-secure forensic psychiatry services demonstrated a highly significant correlation with social deprivation measured at district health authority level using the Jarman UPA 8. There were specific associations with the number of unemployed persons, overcrowded households, and persons from ethnic minorities in the districts studied. There was a 10-fold difference in treated prevalence rates across the region, indicating that certain purchasing authorities may be seriously underfunded to meet the needs of their catchment area populations for secure forensic psychiatry services. Further research is required into the nature of the association between admissions to these services and social deprivation. It is readily apparent that a new formula is required for the allocation of resources in the face of such wide disparities in demand from different geographical locations.

scholarly journals Geological assessment of the East Greenland margin

1969 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 61-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B.W. Fyhn ◽  
Thorkild M. Rasmussen ◽  
Trine Dahl-Jensen ◽  
Willy L. Weng ◽  
Jørgen A. Bojesen-Koefoed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Stage ◽  
Sedimentary Basins ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
East Greenland ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The Us ◽  
Greenland Margin

The East Greenland margin consists of a number of sedimentary basins, platforms and structural highs (Figs 1, 2). Due to the challenges imposed by the Arctic climate, the region is in an early stage of exploration, and knowledge of the geology and petroleum potential of the margin is limited. However, the significant prospectivity of the conjugated European North Atlantic margin and the nature of the North- East Greenland onshore geology prompt for future offshore exploration. The US Geological Survey thus highlighted the North-East Greenland margin in their latest assessment of the Arctic region (Gautier et al. 2011). With a mean estimate of undiscovered recoverable oil, gas, and natural gas liquids of approximately 31 billion barrels of oil equivalents, the US Geological Survey ranked the North-East Greenland margin fourth in the entire Arctic region, only superseded by known producing petroleum provinces.

Disaster Prevention Achieved

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. McLean ◽  
Donald P. Schwert ◽  
Kathleen M. Macek-Rowland ◽  
Thomas M. DeSutter ◽  
H. Katherine O'Neill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Resilience ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Red River ◽  
Disaster Prevention ◽  
Upper Midwest ◽  
The North ◽  
Health Leadership ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Face

Many communities in the US Upper Midwest have been battling record floods in recent decades. This chapter focuses on a spring flood event in 2009, when the Greater Fargo area avoided destruction from the Red River of the North by utilizing mitigation efforts. Included in the undertaking was the mobilization of the community to place millions of sandbags, as well as the creative repurposing of resources. This case study presents a model of community resilience in a geographically vulnerable region. It illustrates the achievement of flood disaster prevention in the face of imminent and severe threat; the reinforcement and enhancement of community resilience based on averting disaster; the channeling of fear-related behaviors into constructive community actions; and the complexity of factors that create unique flood risks along the Red River of the North. Lessons-learned provided for not only a recovery framework, but also a recognition of the value of behavioral health leadership in disaster situations.

The Creation of Cab Signaling

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hofbauer
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Light Rail ◽  
Signaling System ◽  
Signaling Systems ◽  
Train Control ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Rail Systems ◽  
The Us ◽  
Pennsylvania Railroad

Cab signaling enforces the separation between trains as well as enforcing trains to reduce speed as the train approaches signals displaying STOP. Cab signaling allow for and provides a safe way to eliminate the number of wayside automatic signals while the number of controlled speeds can be increased. Light Rail Transit (LRT) systems today are built completely with cab signaling and only fixed wayside signals are placed at interlockings for routing information. Experimental cab signaling systems began in the United States in the 1920s, kicked off by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) ruling that required some form of Automatic Train Control (ATC) be installed on one passenger division by 1925. This paper will begin with examining the initial ATC designs (intermediate and continuous), the first experimental installations, the testing challenges and the overall enhancements that pioneered cab signaling systems in the US. The focus will include the teaming of the Pennsylvania Railroad with Union Switch and Signal (US&S) to develop, build and successfully test the continuous cab signaling system which later became the de facto standard. The early systems implemented used two (2) speeds, methods on adding a third speed and how the system became integrated with the existing automatic block signaling. How Pennsylvania Railroad (currently Amtrak) is still using the technology that started 100 years ago on the North East Corridor. It will also introduce how Light Rail systems operate on speed commands using cab codes.

scholarly journals Diagnosis of the Ghiss Nekor aquifer in order to elaborate the aquifer contract

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 01006
Author(s):  
Wissal Baite ◽  
A. Boukdir ◽  
A. Zitouni ◽  
S. D. Dahbi ◽  
H. Mesmoudi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Underground Water ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Current State ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
The Face ◽  
Over Exploitation ◽  
Al Hoceima

The Ghiss-Nekor aquifer, located in the north-east of the action area of the ABHL, plays a strategic role in the drinkable water supply of the city of Al Hoceima and of the neighboring urban areas. It also participates in the irrigation of PMH. However, this aquifer has problems such as over-exploitation and pollution. In the face of these problems, the only Solution is the establishment of a new mode of governance, which privileges the participation, the involvement and the responsibility of the actors concerned in a negotiated contractual framework, namely the aquifer contract. The purpose of this study is to diagnose the current state of the Ghiss Nekor aquifer, the hydrogeological characterization of the aquifer, the use of the waters of the aquifer, the Problem identification and the introduction of the aquifer contract, which aims at the participatory and sustainable management of underground water resources in the Ghiss- Nekor plain, to ensure sustainable development.

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