Biological and social grounding of phonology : variation as a research tool
| dc.contributor.author | Scobbie, James M. | |
| dc.contributor.sponsor | Acknowledgements. Financial support from ESRC (RES-000-22-2032). | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-29T15:54:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-06-29T15:54:35Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007-08 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Phonological-phonetic sound systems are abstractions away from substance, so while they are grounded in biological capacity, they also reflect phonetically un-natural relationships arising from a variety of linguistic factors. Sociolinguistic variation is one of these non-biological factors. Pilot articulatory results are presented from derhoticised Scottish English. It can have onset/ coda allophony far more radical than the systems that are normally examined in articulatory research. Ultrasound analysis shows acoustic rhoticity in codas may have a post-alveolar constriction so delayed that acoustic rhoticity is covert. Perceptual recoverability of social identity has to be considered in addition to plain phonetic factors. | |
| dc.description.eprintid | 46 | |
| dc.description.faculty | casl | |
| dc.description.ispublished | pub | |
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| dc.description.status | pub | |
| dc.format.extent | 225-228 | |
| dc.identifier | ER46 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Scobbie, J. (2007) Biological and social grounding of phonology : variation as a research tool, Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of the ICPhS, pp. 225-228. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://www.icphs2007.de/ | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/46 | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of the ICPhS | |
| dc.subject | Ultrasound | |
| dc.subject | Scottish English | |
| dc.subject | Rhoticity, Sociophonetics | |
| dc.subject | Articulation | |
| dc.title | Biological and social grounding of phonology : variation as a research tool | |
| dc.type | article | |
| dcterms.accessRights | public | |
| qmu.author | Scobbie, James M. | |
| qmu.centre | CASL | en |
| rioxxterms.type | article |
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