Beschreibung
This volume is a corpus-based variationist sociolinguistic study of contemporary urban western Irish English. It demonstrates the diverse local patterns of variability and change in the phonetic realisation of the dental fricatives (th) and (dh) and establishes a considerable degree of divergence from traditional accounts on Irish English.
Autorenportrait
Arne Peters works as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Potsdam (Germany). His main research interests involve the fields of language variation and change, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, multilingualism and World Englishes.
Inhalt
Contents: Galway as a social and linguistic area – Galway City English as a variety of Irish English – The Corpus of Galway City Spoken English – Uni-/bi-/trivariate analysis of (th, dh)-variability in Galway City English.
