Open AccessDon’t Glottal Stop Me Now
Author(s) -
Jessica Göbel
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
lifespans and styles
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2057-1720
DOI - 10.2218/ls.v6i2.2020.5219
Subject(s) - social class , social hierarchy , socioeconomic status , class (philosophy) , hierarchy , set (abstract data type) , psychology , middle class , linguistics , demography , sociology , social psychology , computer science , political science , artificial intelligence , population , philosophy , law , programming language
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.