Publications

Publication details [#64912]

Smith, Jennifer and Sophie Holmes-Elliott. 2018. Dressing down up north: DRESS-lowering and /l/ allophony in a Scottish dialect. Language Variation and Change 30 (1) : 23–50.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect1 | language change | language variety | rural community | sociophonetics

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This inquiry reports on a sociophonetic research of dress-lowering in a rural dialect in northeast Scotland. It explores whether these impacts play out in a relic dialect formerly resistant to more supralocal alterations.