Supporting data for: Incipient vowel splits in Standard Scottish Englishhttps://doi.org/10.18710/KH6YDISchützler, OleDataverseNO2026-08-262026-08-26T06:14:45Z<b>Dataset description:</b> <p>The dataset contains measurements of the first two formants of the monophthong vowels of Standard Scottish English, produced by <i>n</i> = 34 speakers in the Scottish component of the <i>International Corpus of English</i>. The three vowel categories /a/, /ɔ/ and /u/ are additionally annotated according to the corresponding tense and lax categories in Standard Southern British English (SSBE).</p> <p>The annotation (manually corrected forced alignment) of ICE-Scotland was funded by the German Research Foundation / Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), as specified below, in a project with Ulrike Gut and Ole Schützler as principal investigators and Zeyu Li and Jenny Herzky as research assistants.</p><b>Abstract of the related publication:</b> <p>Standard Scottish English (SSE) traditionally lacks the pandialectal English contrast between paired tense and lax vowels in three instances, resulting in homophones like (1) <i>palm-Pam</i>, (2) <i>caught-cot</i> and (3) <i>pool-pull</i>, from the lexical sets PALM/BATH/TRAP, THOUGHT/LOT and GOOSE/FOOT, respectively. Individual speakers may differentiate between paired vowels, and it has been proposed that (2) above implies (1), and (3) implies both (2) and (1). However, this implicational hierarchy has neither been motivated nor investigated empirically. This article inspects the first two formants of vowels produced by <<i>n</i> = 34 speakers from the Scottish component of the <i>International Corpus of English</i> (ICE-Scotland). While the nature of the modest pairwise differentiation that occurs in the data agrees with the notion of an incipient split along Southern British lines, there is no evidence of an implicational hierarchy. Furthermore, the two basic predictors AGE and GENDER are of limited explanatory value.</p>Arts and HumanitiesStandard Scottish Englishvowel pairssplitacoustic phoneticsScottish Vowel Length RuleEnglishSchützler, Ole. Forthcoming. Incipient vowel splits in Standard Scottish English. <i>Journal of the International Phonetic Association</i>.2026-08-26Schützler, OleGut, UlrikeLi, Zeyu2025-07-072012-01-012020-12-312025-07-012025-08-31Annotated formant measurements<p>Gut, U., & Schützler, O. (2022). ICE-Scotland (Second release). <a href="https://github.com/langres/ICE-Scotland">https://github.com/langres/ICE-Scotland</a></p> <p>Insubstantial parts of this source are reused in this dataset under exceptions and limitations to intellectual property protection set out in the <a href="https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-15-40">Norwegian Copyright Act</a>, which implements the <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:01996L0009-20190606">EU Database Directive</a>.</p>ScotlandUnited KingdomCC BY 4.0