Isolation, integration, and variation: a sociophonetic study on the role of religion in Sikh and Muslim Glaswegian

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The following three research questions will be investigated:1) How does religion impact the exploitation of common features from theheritage home language (Punjabi) when speaking Glaswegian English?2) How are the proposed variables - plosives, stop aspiration, vowel quality, etc.- used by each community constrained by:phonetic factors (e.g. adjacent phonetic context, stress)?syntactic factors (e.g. parts of speech)?word frequency?style and topic of the conversation (e.g. interview, casualconversation)?religious affiliation, cultural affiliation and/or Community of Practice?speaker gender and age?3) How do sociophonetic differences between Sikh and Muslim communitiesreflect self-reported attitudes towards their own community and others'?