Isolation, integration, and variation: a sociophonetic study on the role of religion in Sikh and Muslim Glaswegian
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Glasgow
Department Name: College of Arts
Abstract
The following three research questions will be investigated:
1) How does religion impact the exploitation of common features from the
heritage home language (Punjabi) when speaking Glaswegian English?
2) How are the proposed variables - plosives, stop aspiration, vowel quality, etc.
- used by each community constrained by:
phonetic factors (e.g. adjacent phonetic context, stress)?
syntactic factors (e.g. parts of speech)?
word frequency?
style and topic of the conversation (e.g. interview, casual
conversation)?
religious affiliation, cultural affiliation and/or Community of Practice?
speaker gender and age?
3) How do sociophonetic differences between Sikh and Muslim communities
reflect self-reported attitudes towards their own community and others'?
1) How does religion impact the exploitation of common features from the
heritage home language (Punjabi) when speaking Glaswegian English?
2) How are the proposed variables - plosives, stop aspiration, vowel quality, etc.
- used by each community constrained by:
phonetic factors (e.g. adjacent phonetic context, stress)?
syntactic factors (e.g. parts of speech)?
word frequency?
style and topic of the conversation (e.g. interview, casual
conversation)?
religious affiliation, cultural affiliation and/or Community of Practice?
speaker gender and age?
3) How do sociophonetic differences between Sikh and Muslim communities
reflect self-reported attitudes towards their own community and others'?
Organisations
Studentship Projects
| Project Reference | Relationship | Related To | Start | End | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES/P000681/1 | 01/10/2017 | 30/09/2027 | |||
| 2612120 | Studentship | ES/P000681/1 | 01/10/2021 | 04/01/2026 | Nate Lindgren |