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Abstract

Despite the substantial Asian community in theUK, there has been very little phonetic work onBritish Asian accents. The complementary resultsfrom two small-scale studies of Glasgow Asianaccent confirm the identification of Glasgow Asianas an recognizable accent, identify accent featuresparticular to Glasgow Asian and not found inGlaswegian more generally, and confirm their use- with specific social-indexical functions - ineveryday speech.