English Accents and Dialects is an essential guide to contemporary social and regional
varieties of English spoken in the British Isles today. Together with invaluable overviews of …

While it is certainly one of the smaller varieties of English in terms of its number of speakers,
Scottish English (ScE) is clearly recognised as a major variety in terms of its importance and …

Abstract The Scottish English phoneme inventory is generally claimed to have a/ʍ/-
/w/contrast, although several studies have suggested that this historical contrast is …

Cette thèse en sociophonétique anglaise combine les approches de la sociolinguistique
variationniste et de la phonétique expérimentale pour étudier les rhotiques et la rhoticité en …

Since the 1980s, several studies (particularly Stuart-Smith et al. 2007) have shown an
increase in the use of non-local, English-English variants in various Scottish English …

This study aims to locate the Isle of Man within the sociolinguistic field of language variation
and change. Stigmatised features of speech on island communities are often cited as …

Edinburgh Research Explorer Page 1 Edinburgh Research Explorer A phonetic analysis of the
which~witch merger in Edinburgh, Scotland Citation for published version: Fruehwald, J …

1.1 Aim and scope The present thesis aims to investigate the accent of the biggest city of the
Scottish Highlands: Inverness. Inverness is known as the capital of the Highlands, and is …

Aberdeen is a city of about 200,000 inhabitants in North-East Scotland. The discovery of oil
in the North Sea in the late 1960s had major effects on the city and surrounding Grampian …