Vowel Variation in Scottish Standard English: Accent-Internal Differentiation or Anglicisation?

Abstract

This chapter presents an acoustic analysis of two features of Scottish Standard English (SSE): (i) the vowel /e/ corresponding to Wells’s (1982) lexical set FACE (in words like day and late), and (ii) the vowel /o/ corresponding to the lexical set GOAT (in words like go and boat). Two gaps in the research on SSE are addressed. First, there is a lack of empirical research concerning the variation of these two vowels in Scottish English. Second, there has been relatively little interest in the contact between SSE and Southern Standard British English (SSBE), exceptions being Carr and Brulard (2006), and, more recently, the ESRC-funded research project Accent and Identity on the Scottish-English Border (AISEB).1

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