Titlebook: Sociolinguistics in Scotland; Robert Lawson Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014 Sociolinguistics

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Accent Variation and Change in North-East Scotland: The Case of (,) in Aberdeen,ariety (Brato, in preparation). This variable was chosen because it highlights how the urban accent of Aberdeen is torn between its North-Eastern roots and more recent developments elsewhere in Scotland.

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,Hitting an Edinburgh Target: Immigrant Adolescents’ Acquisition of Variation in Edinburgh English, and the verbs used to introduce reported speech and thought (i.e. quotatives). We present data from conversations and reading passages by 21 Edinburgh teenagers, showing how these Edinburgh teenagers are aligning with several qualitatively different variables found throughout British English.

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Phonological Repetition Effects in Natural Conversation: Evidence from ,-fronting in Fife,otivations for this phonological change in progress in Scotland (e.g. Robinson 2005; Clark 2009; Lawson, forthcoming), but much less consideration has been given to potential structural motivations. This chapter asks whether structural repetition, or priming, can help to explain variation in .-fronting in a corpus of vernacular Scots speech.

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A Socio-Articulatory Study of Scottish Rhoticity,(Hay and Drager 2007). To date, most sociophonetic work on consonants has made use of acoustic analysis to reveal unexpectedly subtle variation which is nonetheless socially indexical (e.g. Docherty and Foulkes 1999). However, some aspects of speech production are not readily recoverable even with a

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Sociolinguistic Variation on the Scottish-English Border,p one, and that it persists in coinciding closely with the political border in spite of the presence of conditions which, in other contexts, have been shown to promote linguistic convergence. In this chapter, we explore some of the phonetic evidence we have gathered in order to test these claims.

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