Effects of the Scottish Vowel Length Rule on Vowel Quantity in Tyneside English
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The Scottish Vowel Length Rule (SVLR) – formerly ‘Aitken’s Law’ [1, 5, 6] – is a contextconditioned vowel length alternation that in Scottish and Northern Irish varieties of English coexists with the so-called Voicing Effect (VE, or ‘pre-fortis clipping’) [3]. It is known that SVLRlike alternations occur in varieties of English spoken in northern England close to the Scottish border [1, 4, 8], but to date little systematic analysis of the extent to which SVLR can be said to be a property of Tyneside English (TE) has been undertaken. Pilot data presented in this paper suggest that for /iː uː aɪ/ the SVLR can be said to operate, if only partially, in TE.
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