Applied Dialectology

Abstract

This chapter focuses on three areas of applied dialectology for which detailed information about dialect variation is crucial. Dialect reduction shares with dialect coaching, of which it is a subtype, the aim of helping a speaker to acquire a new variety. In forensic phonetics, practitioners regularly encounter recordings of speech in which it is suspected that the speaker has used dialect imitation as a disguise, possibly so as to intimidate or coerce the hearer more effectively. Dialect coaching is a form of voice training geared toward helping trainees to develop the ability to talk in dialects other than their own. Such training forms part of the curriculum at all drama schools, and blocks of the voice and speech courses for trainee actors are devoted to intensive dialect and accent work. The indispensability of dialect data in spheres of activity beyond the academy lends additional momentum to this process.

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