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The sociophonology and sociophonetics of Scottish Standard English (r)
Schützler, Ole (2013): The sociophonology and sociophonetics of Scottish Standard English (r), in: Peter Auer, Javier Caro, und Göz Kaufmann (Hrsg.), Language variation - European perspectives IV : selected papers from the Sixth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 6), Freiburg, June 2011, Amsterdam [u.a.]: Benjamins, S. 215–228.
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Title of the compilation:
Language variation - European perspectives IV : selected papers from the Sixth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 6), Freiburg, June 2011
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International Conference on Language Variation in Europe <6, 2011, Freiburg im Breisgau>
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Year of publication:
2013
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9789027234940
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Studies in language variation ; 14
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English
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This paper inspects the variability of (r) in non-linking coda positions (e.g. in the words car, far, and art) in Scottish Standard English (SSE), accepting the three variants [ɾ], [ɹ], and Ø. Interviews with 27 middle-class speakers were conducted, eliciting three styles (careful speech, reading passage, and word list). Following a discussion of previous research on (r) in SSE and an explanation of the conditional hierarchical logistic regression model applied to the data, results are presented with a focus on social and stylistic factors. It appears that female speakers are more likely to vocalise /r/, and older speakers are more likely to use the more traditional tapped variant [ɾ]. Thus, quasi-phonological variation correlates with gender, and phonetic variation correlates with age. Moreover, contact with Southern Standard British English (SSBE) also increases the rates of (r)-vocalisation. In word list style, all speakers are less likely to vocalise (r), but there are significant differences between social groups in this respect: especially young men’s accents are almost categorically rhotic in word list style.
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Scottish English
Rhoticity
Sociophonetics
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Contribution to an Articlecollection
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August 10, 2015
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