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Scottish Gaelic
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Acquiring tongue shape complexity in consonants with multiple articulations
This paper reports preliminary findings from a small-scale pilot study. Our aim is to understand the interaction of differing bilingual …
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Producing a smaller sound system, Acoustics and articulation of the subset scenario in Gaelic-English bilinguals
When a bilingual speaker has a larger linguistic sub-system in their L1 than their L2, how are L1 categories mapped to the smaller set …
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Acoustic and auditory characteristics of rhoticity in the North West of England
We present a sociophonetic, acoustic, and articulatory analysis of coda rhoticity in East Lancashire, North-West England. We analysed …
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Third language phonological acquisition. Understanding sound structure in a multilingual world
The field of third language acquisition has gathered increased attention over the last three decades. However, phonological acquisition …
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Sociolinguistic methodologies at a crossroads. Innovations from the postgraduate community
At this particular juncture in academic scholarship, prompted in part by the global Covid-19 pandemic, we are rethinking methodological …
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Intonational Variation in the North-West of England, The Origins of a Rising Contour in Liverpool
This paper investigates intonation in the urban dialect of Liverpool, Scouse. Scouse is reported to be part of a group of dialects in …
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Place identity and authenticity in minority language revitalisation, Scottish Gaelic in Glasgow
This paper firstly aims to examine how young Gaelic-English bilinguals in immersion education produce aspects of Gaelic phonology. We …
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Sound change or community change? The speech community in sound change studies
This paper considers the typical focus of analysis in a sound change study across generations, the speech community. I argue that …
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Phonetic typology and articulatory constraints, The realisation of secondary articulations in Scottish Gaelic rhotics
Much progress has been made in the last 200 years about understanding the origins and mechanisms of sound change. It is hypothesised …
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Diachronic phonological asymmetries and the variable stability of synchronic contrast
This article aims to understand the development of diachronic asymmetries in phonological systems by evaluating the variability …
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Scottish Gaelic revitalisation, Progress and aspiration
This review considers the revitalisation programme for Scottish Gaelic (referred to simply as `Gaelic' [galik] by its speakers) which …
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Review of 'The Gaelic crisis in the vernacular community, A comprehensive sociolinguistic survey of Scottish Gaelic'
This book presents the results of a substantial study completed by a team of colleagues, most of whom are at the University of the …
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The acoustics of three-way lateral and nasal palatalisation contrasts in Scottish Gaelic
This paper presents an acoustic description of laterals and nasals in an endangered minority language, Scottish Gaelic (known as …
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Bilingual language exposure and the peer group, Acquiring phonetics and phonology in Gaelic Medium Education
This paper aims to examine the acquisition of phonetics and phonology in the context of Scottish Gaelic immersion schooling. I explore …
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Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic is a minority language of Scotland spoken by approximately 58,000 people, or 1% of the Scottish population (speaker …
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Dialect variation in formant dynamics, The acoustics of lateral and vowel sequences in Manchester and Liverpool English
This study analyses the time-varying acoustics of laterals and their adjacent vowels in Manchester and Liverpool English. Generalized …
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Linguistic innovation among Glasgow Gaelic new speakers
An increasingly wide body of literature has examined the ideological practices surrounding new speakers, and attitudes to their …
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An acoustic-articulatory study of bilingual vowel production, Advanced tongue root vowels in Twi and tense-lax vowels in Ghanaian English
This article investigates the acoustic and articulatory correlates of vowel contrasts in bilingual speakers. We analyse data from …
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Identity, accent aim, and motivation in second language users, New Scottish Gaelic speakers' use of phonetic variation
This paper examines the use of phonetic variation in word-final rhotics among nineteen adult new speakers of Scottish Gaelic, i.e. …
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New Scottish Gaelic speakers in Glasgow, A phonetic study of language revitalisation
This article analyses phonetic variation among young people who have learned a minority language in immersion schooling as part of …
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Intonational variation in Liverpool English
This paper investigates intonational variation in Liverpool English, a dialect of British English that is recognised as having a number …
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Intonational variation and change in Scottish Gaelic
This paper investigates intonational variation and change in Scottish Gaelic (henceforth `Gaelic'), a minority endangered language …
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Phonetic variation in Scottish Gaelic laterals
This paper is an acoustic investigation of laterals in contemporary Scottish Gaelic. Scottish Gaelic is described as having three …
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Pre-aspiration and post-aspiration in Scottish Gaelic stop consonants
This paper aims to describe pre-aspirated and post-aspirated stops in an endangered language, Scottish Gaelic. Our small-scale study …
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Phonetic variation, sound change, and identity in Scottish Gaelic
This thesis examines language variation and change in a context of minority language revitalisation. In particular, I concentrate on …
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High back vowels in Scottish Gaelic
This study provides an acoustic phonetic analysis of some of the vowels in an endangered language with little phonetic documentation, …
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