Supporting data for: Incipient vowel splits in Standard Scottish English (doi:10.18710/KH6YDI)

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Citation

Title:

Supporting data for: Incipient vowel splits in Standard Scottish English

Identification Number:

doi:10.18710/KH6YDI

Distributor:

DataverseNO

Date of Distribution:

2026-08-26

Version:

1

Bibliographic Citation:

Schützler, Ole, 2026, "Supporting data for: Incipient vowel splits in Standard Scottish English", https://doi.org/10.18710/KH6YDI, DataverseNO, V1

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Supporting data for: Incipient vowel splits in Standard Scottish English

Identification Number:

doi:10.18710/KH6YDI

Authoring Entity:

Schützler, Ole (https://ror.org/03s7gtk40)

Other identifications and acknowledgements:

Gut, Ulrike

Other identifications and acknowledgements:

Li, Zeyu

Producer:

Leipzig University

Software used in Production:

Praat

Software used in Production:

R

Software used in Production:

RStudio

Software used in Production:

R package 'brms'

Software used in Production:

R package 'lattice'

Software used in Production:

R package 'latticeExtra'

Grant Number:

SCHU 3250/1-1

Distributor:

DataverseNO

Distributor:

The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing)

Access Authority:

Schützler, Ole

Access Authority:

TROLLing curator

Depositor:

Schützler, Ole

Date of Deposit:

2025-07-07

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.18710/KH6YDI

Study Scope

Keywords:

Arts and Humanities, Standard Scottish English, vowel pairs, split, acoustic phonetics, Scottish Vowel Length Rule

Abstract:

<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>

Time Period:

2012-01-01-2020-12-31

Date of Collection:

2025-07-01-2025-08-31

Country:

United Kingdom

Geographic Coverage:

Scotland

Kind of Data:

Annotated formant measurements

Methodology and Processing

Sources Statement

Data Sources:

<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>

Data Access

Notes:

<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0">CC BY 4.0</a>

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Related Materials

Documentation of analysis: https://osf.io/hv3tg/

Related Publications

Citation

Title:

Schützler, Ole. Forthcoming. Incipient vowel splits in Standard Scottish English. <i>Journal of the International Phonetic Association</i>.

Bibliographic Citation:

Schützler, Ole. Forthcoming. Incipient vowel splits in Standard Scottish English. <i>Journal of the International Phonetic Association</i>.

Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

00_ReadMe_IncipientVowelSplitsInSSE.txt

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Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

SSE_VPairs.csv

Notes:

text/comma-separated-values