... feature in Standard English, it is almost always replaced by the deeper sound in the Darlington dialect. Child, line 4 - upstairs standard: dialect: Child, line 20 - Bump standard: dialect: Adult, line 18 - month standard: dialect: This is not the only vowel sound that alters in speech : it can be seen in the word 'stairs' that, where in Standard English, the presence of an 'r' is incorporated into the pronunciation of phonic 'ai' by lengthening it (i.e. as opposed to its Standard English pronunciation in 'train' or 'pain') so 'air' is . In the dialect form, however, this changes to - like the RP pronunciation of 'girl' or 'bird' - so that 'stairs' sounds more like the Standard English pronunciation of 'stirs'. Child, line 4 - stairs standard: dialect: A similar feature is seen here: Adult, line 1 - here standard: dialect: Here, the space in the mouth used to pronounce ...

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