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Vowel duration patterns in Scottish English : the Scottish vowel length rule in the 21st century / Andreas J. Weilinghoff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weilinghoff, Andreas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Vowels.
- English language.
- English language--Quantity.
- English language--Dialects--Scotland.
- English language--Dialects.
- Scotland.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2026]
- Summary:
- "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"-- De Gruyter Brill.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Scotland, Scottish English, Scots and SSE – a unique situation in the anglophone world
- Vowel duration in English : Scotland and beyond
- Methodology : investigating vowel duration in the 21st century
- Findings : vowel overview
- Findings : the short monophthongs of contemporary Scottish Standard English
- Findings : the long monophthongs of contemporary Scottish Standard English
- Findings : the diphthongs of contemporary Scottish Standard English
- Widening the perspective on Scottish vowel duration patterns
- Conclusion : Aitken’s Law in contemporary Scotland : current findings and future directions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed February 12, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Weilinghoff, Andreas. Vowel duration patterns in Scottish English
- ISBN:
- 9781399542005
- 1399542001
- 9781399541992
- 1399541994
- OCLC:
- 1553844237
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000309581
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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