Hello everyone.

I am at first year of Teaching college, department for English language and literature, and recently I 've learned something about RP, so I hope I can explain you what is that.

Received Pronunciation (RP) is one of the types of British English pronunciation, it is used by conservative (old people),  people in general ( people with different social status) and with advanced learners ( students and professors). I've also read that RP pronunciation was related to Queens English ( the native English).

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RP in Britain is an English accent originally from the upper classes of English society, the majority of whom lived in the affluent south east of England, but not all.

As it was most often the members of the upper classes who worked abroad during the days of the British Empire, RP was the accent that became recognized worldwide as a ‘standard’ English accent and was often considered to be “better” than other accents.

It is also sometimes referred to by the terms “BBC English” and “The Queen’s English”.

Originally, this was the form of English used by presenters on radio and television.

However, for several decades other accents (than BBC) have been accepted and are frequently heard, although stereotypes about the BBC persist.  

NEUTRAL and CORRECT ACCENT - Although RP is more common in the South East of England, it is still regarded as a “neutral” and “correct” accent.

It carries no heavy regional influence and is perhaps the clearest and most easily understood accent in Britain.  Thus, speakers of very different dialects within the United Kingdom tend to modify their speech, and particularly vocabulary, towards RP as a lingua franca.

(Technically, a “lingua franca” is a shared language of communication between people whose main languages are different. In this case, it may simply be that the accents and use of vocabulary and grammar are different.)

There is an adapted IPA here selected for American English:

http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/IPA/SSAE.html

Hi Xalit

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Rob

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