10.18710/KH6YDISchützler, OleOleSchützler0000-0001-8868-0191https://ror.org/03s7gtk40DataverseNO2026Arts and HumanitiesStandard Scottish Englishvowel pairssplitacoustic phoneticsScottish Vowel Length RuleSchützler, OleOleSchützlerLeipzig UniversityTROLLing curatorLeipzig UniversityGut, UlrikeUlrikeGutLi, ZeyuZeyuLiThe Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing)TheTromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing)2025-07-072026-08-262025-07-01/2025-08-31Annotated formant measurements6367848526text/plaintext/comma-separated-values1.0CC BY 4.0<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>Praat, 6.1.51R, 4.1.1RStudio, 2025.05.1R package 'brms', 2.16.1R package 'lattice', 0.20-44R package 'latticeExtra', 0.6-29Scotland, UKGerman Research Foundation (DFG)SCHU 3250/1-1