Listening to the Past - Audio Records of Accents of English
Listening to the Past - Audio Records of Accents of English
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聆听往事——英语口音录音
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10.1017/9781107279865.009
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2017
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Stuart-Smith J
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Stuart-Smith J
The vernacular of the Scottish Central Belt, stretching between Edinburgh and Glasgow, where the majority of the Scottish population live, is thought to have undergone radical changes during the course of the twentieth century (eg Johnston 1997; Macaulay 2014). This chapter presents results from an ongoing study of what we believe to be the earliest existing recordings from Glasgow and Central Belt Scottish English, namely the subset of young men from this area who were recorded in German prisoner of war camps during World War I by Wilhelm Doegen, and which now form part of the British Library’s Berliner Lautarchiv British and Commonwealth Recordings collection. Impressionistic auditory analysis was carried out on the speech of eight speakers, with particular emphasis on t-glottalling and rhotics. The speech of three of the western Central Belt men, two speakers from Glasgow and one from the countryside outside the city, was further subjected to acoustic analysis of specific features, particularly the quality and duration of the stressed monophthongs and/ai/, and word-initial/l/; the results of the acoustic analysis are given in an accompanying paper, and are not discussed further here (see Stuart-Smith et al. forthcoming).The chapter has two aims: after discussing the materials and our methods for analysing the recordings (Sections 8.2 and 8.3), we give first a very brief phonetic sketch of early Scottish English as attested in these speakers, with a more detailed outline of t-glottalling and the realisation of/r/(Section 8.4). Our second aim (Section 8.5) is to consider the evidence for real-time change across the century, by focusing on coda/r/. In order to do this, we compare the new results from the Berliner Lautarchiv speakers with findings from previous and current projects on phonological variation and change in Glasgow and the Central Belt. These reveal that the derhoticisation of coda/r/observed in sociolinguistic surveys since the late