A Sociophonetic Approach to Scottish Standard English
Ole Schützler
[Varieties of English Around the World, G53] 2015. xx, 179 pp.
Ole Schützler
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ole Schützler plays a role.
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Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Phonetics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2019 Variation and change at the interface of syntax and semantics: Concessive clauses in American English Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax, Claridge, Claudia and Birte Bös (eds.), pp. 247–268 | Chapter
Based on the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), this chapter inspects diachronic changes of constructions involving the concessive conjunctions although, though and even though from the 1860s to the present day. Following a short summary of changes in semantics and clause structures, the… read more
2018 Concessive conjunctions in written American English: Diachronic and genre-related changes in frequency and semantics Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change, Whitt, Richard J. (ed.), pp. 195–218 | Chapter
Based on the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA; Davies 2010–), this chapter inspects the frequencies and semantics of the concessive conjunctions although, though and even though from the 1860s to the present day. In the data, although and though predominantly express what Sweetser (1990)… read more
2017 A corpus-based study of concessive conjunctions in three L1-varieties of English Language Variation - European Perspectives VI: Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 8), Leipzig, May 2015, Buchstaller, Isabelle and Beat Siebenhaar (eds.), pp. 173–184 | Chapter
This paper presents an analysis of the concessive conjunctions although, though and even though in three varieties of English from different world regions: British, Canadian and New Zealand English. The analysis, which is based on the International Corpus of English, reveals that although and… read more
2016 Patterns of linguistic globalization: Integrating typological profiles and questionnaire data New Approaches to English Linguistics: Building bridges, Timofeeva, Olga, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja and Sarah Chevalier (eds.), pp. 35–66 | Article
In this paper, we present ways of relating the broad scope of typologically motivated approaches to variationist questionnaire data. We explore how descriptive and inferential statistics (such as linear regression) and exploratory techniques (such as aggregative analyses) can be combined for a more… read more
2013 The sociophonology and sociophonetics of Scottish Standard English (r) Language Variation - European Perspectives IV: Selected papers from the Sixth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 6), Freiburg, June 2011, Auer, Peter, Javier Caro Reina and Göz Kaufmann (eds.), pp. 215–228 | Article
This paper inspects the variability of (r) in non-linking coda positions (e.g. in the words car, far, and art) in Scottish Standard English (SSE), accepting the three variants [ɾ], [ɹ], and Ø. Interviews with 27 middle-class speakers were conducted, eliciting three styles (careful speech, reading… read more
2011 Charting vowel spaces in Edinburgh middle-class speech English World-Wide 32:1, pp. 24–45 | Article
In this paper a partly novel combination of auditory transformation and vowel-extrinsic normalisation is applied to acoustic vowel data from six Edinburgh middle-class speakers. It is shown that the vowel plots thus produced correspond rather well to articulatory and impressionistic descriptions… read more