Cockney and received pronunciation (Queen’s English) were once spoken by people of all ages, but they are no longer commonly spoken among young people in the south-east of England.
In new research, colleagues and I recorded the voices of 193 people between the ages of 18 and 33 from across south-east England and London. We then built a computer algorithm which “listened” to how they spoke and grouped them by how similarly they pronounced vowels in different words.
We identified three main accents:standard southern British English, multicultural London English and estuary English.
Sample size of 193… Then using an unproven computer program to analyse vocal patterns.
Even putting such obvious flaws aside the title could just be “study shows that accents do what they’ve always done”
Not a great sample size init