A Sociophonetic Approach to Scottish Standard English

Name: A Sociophonetic Approach to Scottish Standard English
Brand: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Erschienen am 24. Juni 2015

XX, 179 Seiten

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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

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