A sociophonetic approach to Scottish Standard English /
Applying a sociophonetic research paradigm, this volume presents an investigation of variation and change in the Scottish Standard English accent. Based on original audio recordings made in Edinburgh, it provides detailed acoustic and auditory analyses of selected accent features. In contrast to oth...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2015]
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| Series: | Varieties of English Around the World (VEAW) ;
v. G53. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- A Sociophonetic Approach to Scottish Standard English; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of tables; List of figures; List of abbreviations; List of other symbols; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Scottish English: Previous research ; 1.2 The present study in the context of Edinburgh ; 1.3 The variables under investigation ; 1.4 Research in a sociophonetic framework ; 1.5 Overall contribution of the present study ; 1.6 Structure of the book ; 2. Scottish Standard English in context; 2.1 The Scottish English language continuum ; 2.1.1 Scots and Scottish Standard English.
- 2.1.2 Status and definition of SSE 2.1.3 'Drifting' ; 2.2 SSE as a double contact variety ; 2.3 Characteristics of the SSE accent ; 2.3.1 The sound inventory ; 2.3.2 Criterial and optional features of SSE ; 3. Explaining accent variation and change; 3.1 Accent contact and change by accommodation ; 3.2 Internal and external factors in variation and change ; 3.2.1 Age, gender and contact ; 3.2.2 Style ; 3.2.3 Ease of articulation and clarity ; 3.2.4 Frequency effects ; 3.2.5 Other internal factors ; 3.3 Towards a unified model ; 4. Data and methodology; 4.1 Data collection.
- 4.1.1 Speakers and styles 4.1.2 Types and tokens ; 4.1.3 Recording, processing and transcription ; 4.2 Analysing acoustic vowel data ; 4.2.1 Making vowel measurements ; 4.2.2 Vowel transformation ; 4.2.3 Acoustic vowels as variables ; 4.3 Auditory analyses of (r) ; 4.4 Multilevel modelling ; 4.4.1 The hierarchical (generalised) linear model ; 4.4.2 Model output and diagnostics ; 4.4.3 Model-building ; 5. The research context for (e) and (o); 5.1 The acoustics and perception of diphthongs ; 5.2 Historical developments of /e/ and /o/; 5.3 /e/ and /o/ in Scotland.
- 5.3.1 Early sources and textbooks 5.3.2 Contemporary empirical research ; 5.4 Summary and research questions ; 6. Statistical analyses of (e) and (o); 6.1 Descriptive statistics ; 6.2 Multilevel analyses of (e) and (o) ; 6.2.1 Social effects ; 6.2.2 Stylistic effects ; 6.2.3 Language-internal effects ; 6.3 Discussion of results ; 7. The research context for (r); 7.1 Variability of /r/ ; 7.2 Historical developments of /r/ ; 7.3 /r/ in Scotland ; 7.3.1 Early sources and textbooks ; 7.3.2 Contemporary empirical research ; 7.4 Linking /r/ ; 7.5 Summary and research questions.
- 8. Statistical analyses of (r)8.1 Descriptive statistics ; 8.2 Multilevel analyses of (r) ; 8.2.1 Social effects ; 8.2.2 Stylistic effects ; 8.2.3 Language-internal effects ; 8.3 Discussion of results ; 9. Conclusion: Variation and change in SSE; 9.1 Summary of central findings ; 9.2 The SSE-SSBE continuum
- fact or fiction? ; References; Appendices; Appendix A. Fieldwork material; Appendix B. Sample transcript; Appendix C. Token numbers; Appendix D. Independent variables; Index.
