Variation and Change in Aberdeen English

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the authors
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Contents
• Tables
• Figures
• Abbreviations
• Preface
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Aberdeen and North-East Scotland
• 2.1 Key historical developments
• 2.2 The social structure of the city today
• 3 Sociolinguistic setting
• 3.1 The polar structure of Scots and English
• 3.2 The status of Scots in Aberdeen and the North-East
• 4 Theoretical frameworks
• 4.1 Processes and outcomes in dialect contact
• 4.2 The importance of children and teenagers in contact-induced change
• 4.3 Assessing innovation and conservatism
• 5 Research context and research propositions
• 5.1 Aberdeen in the context of previous dialect contact research
• 5.2 Research propositions
• 6 Data and methodology
• 6.1 Study design
• 6.1.1 Informant selection
• 6.1.2 Sociolinguistics questionnaires
• 6.1.3 Linguistic variables chosen for this study
• 6.1.4 Recording procedure and types of material
• 6.2 Phonetic analysis
• 6.3 Statistical analysis
• 6.3.1 Using mixed-effects modelling in sociolinguistic research
• 6.3.2 Statistical modelling
• 6.3.3 Interpreting the Rbrul output
• 6.4 Assessing innovation and conservatism
• 7 Linguistic variables
• 7.1 (boot)
• 7.1.1 Background
• 7.1.2 Methodology
• 7.1.3 Findings
• 7.1.3.1 Interview style
• 7.1.3.2 Wordlist style
• 7.1.4 Summary and discussion
• 7.2 (out)
• 7.2.1 Background
• 7.2.2 Methodology
• 7.2.3 Findings
• 7.2.3.1 Interview style
• 7.2.3.2 Wordlist style
• 7.2.4 Summary and discussion
• 7.3 (hw)
• 7.3.1 Background
• 7.3.2 Methodology
• 7.3.3 Findings
• 7.3.3.1 Interview style
• 7.3.3.2 Wordlist style
• 7.3.4 Summary and discussion
• 7.4 (l)
• 7.4.1 Background
• 7.4.2 Methodology
• 7.4.3 Findings
• 7.4.3.1 Interview style
• 7.4.3.2 Wordlist style
• 7.4.4 Summary and discussion
• 7.5 (postvocalic r)
• 7.5.1 Background
• 7.5.2 Methodology
• 7.5.3 Findings
• 7.5.3.1 Interview style
• 7.5.3.2 Wordlist style
• 7.5.4 Discussion
• 7.6 (th)
• 7.6.1 Background
• 7.6.2 Methodology
• 7.6.3 Findings
• 7.6.3.1 Interview style
• 7.6.3.2 Wordlist style
• 7.6.4 Summary and discussion
• 7.7 Summary of key findings
• 8 Discussion
• 8.1 Linguistic processes and outcomes of dialect contact in Aberdeen
• 8.2 The role of age and other social factors
• 8.3 Evaluation of the model of assessing innovation and conservatism using mixed-effects regressions
• 9 Conclusion
• References
• Index
• Appendix
• A-1 Overview of speaker metadata
• A-2 Wordlist