A sociophonetic approach to Scottish Standard English / Ole Schützler, University of Bamberg.
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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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.
