Phonetic Variation among Scottish Members of the UK Parliament.

  • Hall-Lew, Lauren (Principal Investigator)
  • Scobbie, James M. (Researcher)
  • Friskney, Ruth (Student)

Project Details

Description

This project is a sociophonetic analysis of vowel variation among a subsample of contemporary Scottish Members of the UK Parliament, stratified by political party.

Layman's description

This project looks at the potential relationship between a person’s political identity and their pronunciation of certain speech sounds.
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date1/09/1331/12/14

Funding

  • Learned Societies: £9,634.00

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