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Sound change or community change? The speech community in sound change studies:A case study of Scottish Gaelic
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This paper considers the typical focus of analysis in a sound change study across generations: the speech community. I argue that changes in social practices across generations may mean that comparisons across generations can be problematic, and these issues are particularly pertinent in small and endangered language communities. Using data from Scottish Gaelic (Celtic, ISO = gla), a minority endangered language of Scotland, I exemplify the challenges posed by the speech community construct via an examination of lateral production in subsequent generations of speakers. Gaelic traditionally contrasts three phonemic laterals, but analysis shows that this might be changing. There are two possible directions for sound change in the Gaelic lateral system: results show that younger speakers produce some palatalised laterals as palatal glides without laterality. Meanwhile, the remaining laterals are less acoustically distinct among younger generations suggesting the possibility of future merger. While there are differences among the groups of speakers, I argue it is potentially problematic to consider this to be a form of sound change due to differences in social practices among generations surrounding Gaelic usage and socialisation. Ultimately, I advocate for a socially-informed approach to sound change study to sympathetically take into account local social structure.
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URL: https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/151797/ https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/151797/1/sound_change_vanguard.pdf
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Review of 'The Gaelic crisis in the vernacular community: a comprehensive sociolinguistic survey of Scottish Gaelic'
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Phonetic typology and articulatory constraints:The realisation of secondary articulations in Scottish Gaelic rhotics
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Intonational Variation in the North-West of England: The Origins of a Rising Contour in Liverpool ...
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Place identity and authenticity in minority language revitalisation:Scottish Gaelic in Glasgow
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Bilingual language exposure and the peer group:Acquiring phonetics and phonology in Gaelic Medium Education
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Intonational variation in the North-West of England:The origins of a rising contour in Liverpool
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The acoustics of three-way lateral and nasal palatalisation contrasts in Scottish Gaelic
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Dialect variation in formant dynamics:The acoustics of lateral and vowel sequences in Manchester and Liverpool English
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Studying intonation in varieties of English:Gender and individual variation in Liverpool
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An acoustic-articulatory study of bilingual vowel production:advanced tongue root vowels in Twi and tense/lax vowels in Ghanaian English
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