Estuary English and the Language Change in English

自20世纪80年代以来，公认发音的声望一直在下降，一种名为河口的社交节目已经出现，并在伦敦的年轻说话者中渗透开来。我们开始这项研究是为了确定河口英语能否成为最具影响力的英语作为一门语言(以下简称ELF)的典范。2011年，我们对20多岁、在伦敦大学学院工作的女性参与者的语言数据进行了分析，发现一些语言变化对学习英语的日本学生来说是不可取的。因此，我们认为河口品种不适合ELF模式。此外，2013年在谢菲尔德大学举行的语言变异和变化会议上证实，河口英语已经过时。

The prestige of Received Pronunciation has been declined since 1980s, and a social variety called Estuary has emerged and permeated among younger speakers in London. We started the present study in order to decide whether Estuary English could stand as a most influential model of English as a Lingua Franca (hereafter ELF). In 2011 we took linguistic data for analysis from female participants in their 20s, who worked at University College London, and found several linguistic changes undesirable for Japanese students of the English language. Therefore, we concluded that the Estuary variety could not be suitable for the model of ELF. Furthermore, it was confirmed that Estuary English had already been old-fashioned at the Conference on Language Variation and Change held at the University of Sheffield in 2013.