Pronunciation in the Scottish English classroom: meeting ...
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SCOTTISH ENGLISH
ARABIA MARTÍNEZ SEGUÍ
Background
Grammar
Vocabulary
Phonetics
Test
INDEX
Scotland is part of United Kingdom
The money used is called the sterling pound
The population of Scotland is 4.996.000
SCOTLAND
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Aberdeen
GEOGRAPHY OF SCOTLAND
Scottish English: varieties of English spoken in Scotland
◦ Gaelic is an ancient language of Scotland
◦ Most of the Gaelic speaking-people live in the north-west
LANGUAGE
Union of the Crowns (1603) Union of the Parliaments (1707) Steady decline of Scots begins in 16th century, by the
end of the 17th century English has gained considerable influence in Scotland English learned formally in Highlands and northern and
western
LANGUAGE HISTORY
NATIONAL SYMBOLS
GRAMMATICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Will instead of shall .Ex: Will I see you after?
Passive expressed by “get” Ex: I got told off
Verbs of motion may be elided before adverbs of motion Ex: I’ll away home then; the cat wants out.
“Have” behave more like an auxiliary Ex: he’d a good time
Characteristics I
“Need to”, “use to” and “dare to” are used as main verbs. Ex: he didn’t need to do that; he doesn’t dare to talk
Perfect aspect of a verb is indicated using “be” as auxiliary with the preposition “after” Ex: “he is after going” instead of “ he had gone”
Some verbs are used progressively. Ex: I was hoping to see him or they were meaning to come
Characteristics II
Pronouns in –self may be used non- reflexively Ex: How’s yourself today?
Anybody, everybody, nobody, somebody are preferred to anyone, everyone, no one, someone.
Amn’t I? is used virtuarlly to the exclusion of aren’t I? Ex: I’m expected too, amn’t I?
Characteristics III
The use of “not” rather than “n’t” Ex: he’ll not come; you’re not wanted.
The adverbial particle follows the verb Ex: he turned out the light
Use of participle after “need” Ex: My car needs washed
Characteristics IV
LEXICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Dinnae= Don’t Aye= yes Brae= hill Wee = small To mind= to remember Dram= drink Gate= road Nippin’ = nagging Paddock = frog Canny = careful Kirk= church
Kilt = Scottish Skirt Lassies = girls
ScotEng words used in Scotland
How are you keeping ? = how are you?
That’s me away = I’m going now
The back of nine o’ clock = soon after nine o’ clock
I’ve got the cold = a cold
Idioms
PHONETIC CHARACTERISTICS
Vowels and consonants
Strongly rhotic (trilled alveolar /r/ or alveolar tap /R /)
Monophthongized diphthongs: ◦RP/əU / as /o/ (“go” /go/); ◦RP /εI/ as /e/ (“play” /ple/); ◦RP /aU/ as /u:/ (“house” /hu:s/)
Unstressed vowels often realized as /I/ where RP has /ə/◦ “pilot” as /pʌilIt/,“letter” as /lEtIr/
Characteristics I
/u:/ and /U /, e.g. “pool” and “pull” are homophones
/ɔ/ and /ɒ/ merged to /ɔ/ such that “cot” and “caught” are homophones
Characteristics II
/I / and /ʌ/ are always short
RP diphthong /AI / becomes longer. e.g., in “tied”, “high”, “prize”.
Non-initial /t/ often replaced by /ʔ / (“butter” /bʌʔIr/) , use decreases in higher social classes
Characteristics III
“Donald wheres your troosers?”
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Which is the second largest city of Scotland?a) Aberdeenb) Glasgowc) Edinburgh
When did the Union of the Parliaments happen?a) 1607b) 1807c) 1707
Which is a national symbol of Scotland?a) Sunflowerb) Thistlec) Rose
Test
In Scottish English, “have” could be….a) A modalb) An auxiliarc) Both of them
Perfect aspect of a verb is indicated using “be” as auxiliary with the preposition…a) Beforeb) Afterc) At
Test
What does “wee” mean?a) Smallb) Bigc) Cold
What does “kilt” mean?a) Churchb) Scottish skirtc) Trousers
In Scottish English, which are homophones?a) /u:/ and /U/b) /U/ and /I/c) /U/ and /A/
Test
/I / and /ʌ/ are always…a) Homophonesb) Longc) Short
When does Scottish use glottal stop?a) Consonant “t”b) Consonant “d”c) Consonant “k”
Test
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