Vowel Duration Patterns in Scottish English
The Scottish Vowel Length Rule in the 21st Century
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 31 December 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781399541978
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 40 black and white illustrations, 43 black and white tables 700
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Short description:
The first comprehensive analysis of the Scottish Vowel Length Rule and Voicing Effect on a countrywide scale.
MoreLong description:
The Scottish Vowel Length Rule (SVLR) is a special feature of Scottish English phonology and is said to contrast with the Voicing Effect (VE), the vowel timing pattern found in most other varieties of English.
In this in-depth work, Andreas Weilinghoff employs some of the latest speech technology as well as advanced methods in inferential statistics to reveal not only the complex patterns of vowel duration in Scottish English but also how quantity patterns observed in production experiments change in naturally occurring speech. This book brings together different disciplinary areas from Scottish English studies, Sociophonetics to Corpus Linguistics and Computational Linguistics.
Table of Contents:
List of Abbreviations
List of other symbols
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Scotland, Scottish English, Scots and SSE – a unique situation in the anglophone world.
1.1 Scottish Gaelic
1.2 Scots
1.3 (Scottish Standard) English
1.4 The relationship between Scots and (Scottish Standard) English
2. Vowel duration in English: Scotland and beyond.
2.1 Aitken’s Law and the VE
2.2 Segmental factors
2.3 Suprasegmental factors
2.4 Summary
3. Methodology: Investigating vowel duration in the 21st century
3.1 The sample.
3.2 Data preparation
3.2.1 Data preparation of ICE Scotland
3.2.2 Data preparation of self-collected datasets
3.3 Data analysis
3.3.1 Vowel selection
3.3.2 Variable selection
3.3.3 Statistical analysis
3.4 Summary
4. Findings: Vowel overview
4.1 Summary
5. Findings: The short monophthongs of contemporary Scottish Standard English
5.1 KIT
5.2 STRUT
5.3 DRESS
5.4 Summary
6. Findings: The long monophthongs of contemporary Scottish Standard English
6.1 GOOSE
6.2 FLEECE
6.3 THOUGHT
6.4 FACE
6.5 GOAT
6.6 CAT
6.7 Summary
7. Findings: The diphthongs of contemporary Scottish Standard English
7.1 MOUTH
7.2 PRICE
7.3 CHOICE
7.4 Summary
8. Widening the perspective on Scottish vowel duration patterns
8.1 Aitken’s Law and the VE in 21st century spoken SSE
8.2 Sociolinguistic variation
8.3 The influence of prosodic factors
Conclusion: Aitken's Law in Contemporary Scotland: Current Findings and Future Directions
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