Vowel Duration Patterns in Scottish English: The Scottish Vowel Length Rule in the 21st Century (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781399541978)

The Scottish Vowel Length Rule (SVLR) is a special feature of Scottish English phonology and is said to contrast with the Voicing Effect (VE), the vowel timing pattern found in most other varieties of English.

In this in-depth work, Andreas Weilinghoff employs some of the latest speech technology as well as advanced methods in inferential statistics to reveal not only the complex patterns of vowel duration in Scottish English but also how quantity patterns observed in production experiments change in naturally occurring speech. This book brings together different disciplinary areas from Scottish English studies, Sociophonetics to Corpus Linguistics and Computational Linguistics.

Author: Andreas J. Weilinghoff
ISBN-10: 1399541978
ISBN-13: 9781399541978
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/31/2025
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d