TY  - BOOK
AU  - Arne Peters
PY  - 2016
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653066395
TI  - Linguistic Change in Galway City English
T2  - A Variationist Sociolinguistic Study of (th) and (dh) in Urban Western Irish English
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-06639-5
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050089
N2  - This volume is a novel approach to the corpus-based variationist sociolinguistic study of contemporary urban western Irish English. Based on qualitative data as well as on linguistic features extracted from the Corpus of Galway City Spoken English, this study approaches the major sociolinguistic characteristics of (th) and (dh) variability in Galway City English. It demonstrates the diverse local patterns of variability and change in the phonetic realisation of the dental fricatives and establishes a considerable degree of divergence from traditional accounts on Irish English. This volume suggests that the linguistic stratification of variants of (th) and (dh) in Galway correlates both with the social stratification of the city itself and with the stratification of speakers by social status, sex/gender and age group.
KW  - dental fricatives, urban dialectology, multivariate analysis, corpus linguistics
LA  - English
ER  -