Open AccessAn Intraspeaker Study of /t/-glottaling in Scottish English
Author(s) -
M. Sagaya Sophia
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
lifespans and styles
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2057-1720
DOI - 10.2218/ls.v5i1.2019.3115
Subject(s) - scots , interview , australian english , variation (astronomy) , linguistics , psychology , history , social psychology , sociology , anthropology , philosophy , physics , astrophysics
Recent sociolinguistic research suggests that the previously-stigmatised glottal replacement of /t/ has begun to appear more frequently in more standard varieties of Scots and Scottish English, as well as further south in RP. This study investigates the patterns of /t/-glottaling used by Scottish television presenter Lorraine Kelly and whether her rates of /t/-glottaling differ by interlocutor, by comparing two audio clips where she acts as interviewer and interviewee respectively. Whilst a high rate of word-final /t/-glottaling is found, there is no difference in /t/-glottaling between the two contexts, making it difficult to explain this variation through contextual social factors.