Changes well-established,

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• National Standards
• Regional Standards
• Local Accents
• 2. Major accent types: British and American
• American English lacks the short vowel /o/, it is replaced by a vowel /a:/ which is similar to rp vowel in father:
• The rp vowel /o/ can also be replaced by a long vowel /o:/:
• Consonants
• Word stress
• Intonation
• 3.British regional features
• American regional features
• 5. Social Variation: Social factors and social markers.
• 6. Language change in progress
• Processes almost complete
• Changes well-established,
• Recent innovations