'Talkin' Jockney'? Variation and change in Glaswegian accent

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 221-260

  Stuart Smith, Jane ^a   Timmins, Claire ^a   Tweedie, Fiona ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescents and vernacular; Language ideology; Language variation and change; Multivariate analysis; Phonological variation; Scottish English

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247356961     PISSN: 13606441     EISSN: 14679841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2007.00319.x     Document Type: Article

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