Scottish accent

Scottish accent
Group 2
Students

Azarkevich Malena
Cantero Agostina
Cardozo Maria Victoria
Grahl Katherine
Gomez Engel Antonella

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1. Accents and Dialects of Scotland

● Germanic or Celtic families

● Range from soft and sing-song to stronger and more

pronounced

Agostina Cantero
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Scottish ● Founding language of the country
Gaelic ● Origin in the 10th Century
● Developed from Middle Irish together with
Modern Irish and Manx
● Spoken in Scottish Highlands and Western
Isles
● Gaelic ability
● Census of 2011
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 Scots ● Lowlands of Scotland
Dialect ● Originated with the tongue of the Angles
● Closer in style to that of English
● Regional language

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English in
Scotland
● Standard English used as the
language of education, religion and
government
● Contain elements that are
characteristically Scottish
● They pronounce the /r/ sound after a
vowel in words like farm, first and
better

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Phonological
characteristics:

Cardozo Maria Victoria

Gomez Engel Antonella

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VOWELS ← VS→

[hape]

← VS→

← BUT→

/ ɜː / -- [ɚ]
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 monophthongal vowels
Do not exist

i beer

e air

u poor

DIPHTHONGS

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Consonants
characteristics Rhotic accent

/r/ and /l/ /r/ and /m/ /r/ and /n/

That girl is my world Army

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/θs/ → /ðz/ “ /θ/ /θ/ - [h]

[hɪŋk]

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Glottalization of /t/ “ The phoneme /x/

[ðaʔ]

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Words and Grammatical
characteristics
KATHY

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 Grammatical
Characteristics ▹ Differences in regular and irregular verbs.
“tellt” , “sellt”

▹ Old nasal plurals are still found.

“Shin = Shoes”

▹ The clitic -na/-nae corresponds to not.

“She cannae (= cannot) leave now”

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Related to
grammar
Passive form + get: Must Singular verbs +
"You’ve got to “She must not be plural nouns.
speak to her". Scottish” "My glasses is
broken".

Progressive verb Prepositions

“I'm wanting a “I was waiting on
drink” you”

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Scotticisms
Everyday use:
▹ Awrite!= “Hi!”.
▹ Laddie /lassie = “a young boy /young girl”.
▹ Bonnie = “pretty”.
▹ Braw = “fine”.
▹ What age are you? = "How old are you?"
▹ Whaur dae ye bide? = "Where do you live?“
▹ Aye, right! = "definitely not!”.
▹ Bye the nou! = "goodbye”.
▹ A dinna ken ="I don't know"
▹ Keep the heid. = “Don’t lose your head.”

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 5
Recognising the
features of Scottish
accent
Malena Azarkevich
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MERIDA’S LINE
In tae = into
Auld yin = one’s own father (preposition)

I gave ma mommy a cake, she turned in tae a big

bear and ma auld yin tried to dae her in. If that’s
not pure mess I don’t know what is!

Ma=My
(possessive Dae her in = kill her
pronoun)
 I gave ma mommy a cake
aɪ ɡe(ɪ) mæ mæmi ə kek

➢ Monophthongization of diphthongs /
she turned in tae a big bear (and) my auld yin tried to dae her in
shi tɜ:ɾnd ɪntu ə bɪɡ be:ɾ ən maɪ ɑdʒɪn traɪd tə di:ɾ ɪn

➢ The approximant /r/ is pronounced (even after vowels) as

➢ Monophthongization of the diphtongue
➢ Monophthongization of the diphtongue
 If that’s not pure mess I don’t know what is!
ɪf ðæts nɑʔ pju: mes ai dɑnʔ nɑ wɑʔ ɪz

➢ Glottal stops

➢ Monophthongization of the diphthongue

➢ Monophthongization of the diphthongue

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Activity
LISTENING
TIME!!!

Christine

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Christine’s lines:
--> ju hɪeɾ ez weɫ
ju gɒʔ aʊɫz fə ðə de: beθ
æktʃʊəli dʒæz / ju meɪ bi: ebɫ tə heɫp / ə ju eni gʊd wið kəmpju:təɾs
ə kʌp ə(v) tiː fə miː pɫi:z beθ
sɒ dʒæz / wɒʔ wəz ðəʔ ju sed ðət ju θɔːʔ ɪʔ wəz ege:n
maɪ wɒʔə
ə vaɪɾəs
ɪz ðæt wɒʔ ju θɪŋk dʒæz / ə vaɪɾəs
ən wɜːɾ meɪ ðæt (h)əv kʌm frəm
ə spæm vaɪɾəs / ɔ: maɪ gɒd
weɫ ɪʔ wʊd bi: wi:k if it (h)əd həd ðəʔ vaɪɾəs

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English in ● Is the most difficult English to define than
Scotland elsewhere in the UK.
● Socially prestigious form form middle
classes.

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 OTHER
RESOURCES

https://www.uv.es/anglotic/accents_of_english/02/exam
ples_of_scottish_english.html

https://www.bl.uk/british-accents-and-dialects/collection
-items?page=2