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Publication details [#60423]
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
Wereas Isle of Lewis and Glasgow youth acquiring Scottish Gaelic in immersion education-as-revival-effort, speak Gealic as an intonation language (prosodically similar to English), older Gaelic speakers talk Gaelic as a language with contrastive word accents (prosodically similar to Swedish). Further analysis of youth intonation indicates cross-language impact from Glaswegian English.