Deduction

The analysis of the speech of Estuary English and Cockney speakers revealed the phonetic, grammatical and lexical features of these dialects.

On the basis of the considered material we can conclude that EE speakers mostly use the following features of the dialect:

• loss of sound [t] in the middle and at the end of a word or glottal stop; • vocalized letter "l", sounding like [ʊ] (miuk instead of milk); • optional replacement of the interdental fricatives [θ] and [ð] by labiodental fricatives [f] and [v].

Features such as inserting linking [] at the end of a word ending in a vowel followed by a word beginning with a vowel sound, or replacement of sounds [dj] and [tj] by affricates [ʤ] and [ʧ] are less often.

Cockney dialect speakers, in turn, often use such features of the dialect as: • the elision of initial phoneme [h], for example hair [ɛə]; • loss of consonant sound at the end of a word or glottal stop; • front articulation between phonemes: deaf and sonorous interdental fricatives [θ] and [ð] are changed to labiodental fricatives [f] and [v]; • replacement of the diphthong [eɪ] by [aɪ]; • disappearance of nasal [ŋ] in the ending “ing”; • Vocalized letter "l", sounding like [ʊ]; • [ə] at the end of a word is pronounced like [a].

In the analyzed videos and excerpts from works of art grammatical features of the Cockney dialect were also discovered: double negative, the use of a form is with nouns in the plural, and the use of a form ain't instead of haven't and isn't.

In the result we come to the conclusion that Cockney and Estuary English speakers often use in their speech the features of both dialects, but the pronunciation of native speakers of Estuary English is closer to RP, since it provides for smaller amount of deviations from pronunciation standard than the pronunciation of native speakers of Cockney. Thus, it proves that Estuary English class dialect is a step above Cockney.