A textbook overview of the structure, use and diversity of Modern Scots This textbook
overview of Modern Scots provides a description and analysis of the language covering …

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 …

Scottish English has characteristic phonological features including rhoticity, the/ʍ/‐
/w/contrast and the lack of the nurse merger. However, recent studies have found ongoing …

British-Asians have often been stereotyped in the media through their cultural and linguistic
practices, and these have been exacerbated by ongoing anti-Islamic international media …

Sociolinguistic research across Scotland in recent decades has documented an erosion of
the phonemic contrast between/ʍ/(as in which) and/w/(as in witch). Based on acoustic …

In recent years sociolinguistic research in the British Isles has reported the process of dialect
levelling,'whereby differences between regional varieties are reduced, new features emerge …

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 …