'Talkin Jockney'? Variation and change in Glaswegian accent

Stuart-Smith, Jane and Timmins, Claire and Tweedie, Fiona (2007) 'Talkin Jockney'? Variation and change in Glaswegian accent. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 11 (2). 221–260. (https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9841.2007.00319.x)

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Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of language variation and change in a socially stratified corpus of Glaswegian collected in 1997. Eight consonantal variables in read and spontaneous speech from 32 speakers were analysed separately and then together using multivariate analysis. Our results show that middle-class speakers, with weaker network ties and more opportunities for mobility and contact with English English speakers, are maintaining traditional Scottish features. Working-class adolescents, with more limited mobility and belonging to close-knit networks, are changing their vernacular by using 'non-local' features such as TH-fronting and reducing expected Scottish features such as postvocalic /r/. We argue that local context is the key to understanding the findings. Mobility and network structures are involved, but must be taken in conjunction with the recent history of structural changes to Glasgow and the resulting construction of local class-based language ideologies which continue to be relevant in the city today

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Stuart-Smith, Jane, Timmins, Claire ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4711-7113 and Tweedie, Fiona;
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