Linguistic Change in Galway City English: A Variationist Sociolinguistic Study of (th) and (dh) in Urban Western Irish English

This volume is a novel approach to the corpus-based variationist sociolinguistic study of contemporary urban western Irish English.\n\nBased 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. Additional ISBNs 3631671784, 3653066395, 9783631671788, 9783653066395Linguistic Change in Galway City English: A Variationist Sociolinguistic Study of (th) and (dh) in Urban Western Irish English 1st Edition is written by Arne Peters and published by Peter Lang Gmb H, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften. ISBNs for Linguistic Change in Galway City English are 9783653951455, 3653951453 and the print ISBNs are 9783631671788, 3631671784. Additional ISBNs include 3631671784, 3653066395, 9783631671788, 9783653066395.