Ryan, S. D. (2021) “I just sound Sco[ʔ]ish now”: the acquisition of word-medial glottal replacement by Polish adolescents in Glasgow. English World Wide, 42(2), pp. 145-174. (doi: 10.1075/eww.00066.dur)
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Abstract
This article investigates the speech of adolescents who have moved directly from Poland to Glasgow, using data from a range of social contexts and comparing their speech to that of their locally-born peer-group. Focusing on the acquisition of word-medial glottal replacement, I find that the Polish participants have replicated one of the constraints shown by their locally-born peers (number of syllables), have come close to replicating another (following segment), and have three which are not significant for the Glaswegians: lexical frequency, preceding segment and speech context. The emergence of the speech context constraint for the Polish group (and not for the Glaswegians) is a novel finding, and sheds light on how learners come to understand and negotiate style in the L2. I suggest that as they are going through the acquisition process, the Polish group use speech context as an interpretive framework around which they structure their stylistic variation.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Ryan, Dr Sadie |
| Authors: | Ryan, S. D. |
| College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies College of Social Sciences > School of Education |
| Journal Name: | English World Wide |
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| ISSN: | 0172-8865 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1569-9730 |
| Published Online: | 21 April 2021 |
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