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- Title: Anglo-English Influences on Scottish Standard English Speakers: Trap/Bath/Palm/Start and Lot/Cloth/Thought/North/Force (1).
- Author : Scottish Language
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 220 KB
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1. INTRODUCTION Current related work concerning Anglo-English influences on Scottish English includes that of Stuart-Smith (1999 and elsewhere (2)) on London English influences on WC Glasgow English. Stuart-Smith found evidence of London English features in inner-city (Gorbals) Glasgow WC adolescent speech, alongside local WC variables, but no local MC variables. Earlier work includes Abercrombie's (1979) observations of Anglo-English (RP-type accents) influences on MC Scottish Standard English (SSE) at Edinburgh University. Abercrombie noted Anglo-English effects on SSE vowel pronunciations, notably presence of the /ae/ vs /[??]/ and /[??]/ vs /[??]/ co--ntrasts, claiming that the presence of the latter implies the presence of the former. In other words, /ae/ vs /[??]/ is, he claimed, acquired before /[??]/ vs /[??]/ by SSE speakers who modify their accent towards an RP-type target. Abercrombie further claimed that presence of the FOOT/GOOSE distinction (i.e. the /[??]/ vs /[??]/ distinction) implies presence of the /[??]/ vs /[??]/ and /ae/ vs /[??]/ distinctions. But Abercrombie presented no data, and thus no detailed analysis of data. Our aim here is to look in detail at recorded data of SSE speakers, in order to extract patterns which show how SSE speakers make their way into acquiring features of RP. One of the central issues here concerns the use of the phonemic principle and the role of the lexicon in describing accent variability, which we discuss below.
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