Don’t Glottal Stop Me Now

This paper analyses the speech of Edinburgh speakers from a range of ages and socioeconomic backgrounds: established middle class (EMC), new middle class (NMC), and working class (WC). Findings were compared to previous studies, particularly Titheridge (2020), which examines the same data set collec...

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Main Author: Jessica Göbel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh Library 2020-12-01
Series:Lifespans and Styles
Online Access:http://journals.ed.ac.uk/lifespansstyles/article/view/5219
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spelling doaj-eb455953af8a4ee686d305e5d721a83e2021-04-20T14:08:45ZengUniversity of Edinburgh LibraryLifespans and Styles2057-17202020-12-0162324310.2218/ls.v6i2.2020.52195219Don’t Glottal Stop Me NowJessica Göbel0University of EdinburghThis paper analyses the speech of Edinburgh speakers from a range of ages and socioeconomic backgrounds: established middle class (EMC), new middle class (NMC), and working class (WC). Findings were compared to previous studies, particularly Titheridge (2020), which examines the same data set collected in 1975. The results show that /t/-glottaling significantly correlates with social class but not age. The following phoneme and position of /t/ within the word were shown to be significant predictors of /t/-glottaling. Evidence of an interaction between the following phoneme and the speakers’ social class was found, which could suggest that NMC has a different ordering hierarchy of the aforementioned factors from WC and EMC.http://journals.ed.ac.uk/lifespansstyles/article/view/5219
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title_short Don’t Glottal Stop Me Now
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publishDate 2020-12-01
description This paper analyses the speech of Edinburgh speakers from a range of ages and socioeconomic backgrounds: established middle class (EMC), new middle class (NMC), and working class (WC). Findings were compared to previous studies, particularly Titheridge (2020), which examines the same data set collected in 1975. The results show that /t/-glottaling significantly correlates with social class but not age. The following phoneme and position of /t/ within the word were shown to be significant predictors of /t/-glottaling. Evidence of an interaction between the following phoneme and the speakers’ social class was found, which could suggest that NMC has a different ordering hierarchy of the aforementioned factors from WC and EMC.
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