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T-to-R and the Northern Subject Rule: questionnaire-based spatial, social and structural linguistics1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2013

ISABELLE BUCHSTALLER ,
KAREN P. CORRIGAN ,
ANDERS HOLMBERG ,
PATRICK HONEYBONE  and
WARREN MAGUIRE
ISABELLE BUCHSTALLER
Affiliation:
School of English, Leipzig University, Beethovenstrasse 15, 04107 Leipzig, Germanyi.buchstaller@uni-leipzig.de
KAREN P. CORRIGAN
Affiliation:
School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Percy Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RUUKk.p.corrigan@ncl.ac.uk, anders.holmberg@newcastle.ac.uk
ANDERS HOLMBERG
Affiliation:
School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Percy Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RUUKk.p.corrigan@ncl.ac.uk, anders.holmberg@newcastle.ac.uk
PATRICK HONEYBONE
Affiliation:
Linguistics and English Language, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Dugald Stewart Building, 3 Charles StreetEdinburgh EH8 9AD, UKpatrick.honeybone@ed.ac.uk, w.maguire@ed.ac.uk
WARREN MAGUIRE
Affiliation:
Linguistics and English Language, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Dugald Stewart Building, 3 Charles StreetEdinburgh EH8 9AD, UKpatrick.honeybone@ed.ac.uk, w.maguire@ed.ac.uk
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Accents and dialects of English and Scots in Britain have been under active investigation for many decades, as reported through the Survey of English Dialects (Orton et al. 1962–71) and the Linguistic Atlas of Scotland (Mather et al. 1975–86), Wells’ three-volume compendium (1982), and a host of detailed studies of individual varieties. There are also welcome recent signs of the reintegration of variation data into theoretical discussion (see Henry 2002, Cornips & Corrigan 2005a and Trousdale & Adger 2007 for morphosyntax, as well as Anttila 2002 and Coetzee & Pater 2011 for phonology). Nonetheless, the precise structural, geolinguistic and sociolinguistic patterning of many features of vernacular Englishes in the UK is still largely unknown.

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English Language & Linguistics , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , March 2013 , pp. 85 - 128
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The authors wish to acknowledge the intellectual contribution to the British Academy project that generated this research by April McMahon, Aberystwyth University. We are, of course, also grateful to the British Academy for their financial contribution to the research via its Small Grants Scheme (see: www.lel.ed.ac.uk/dialects/nesps.html).

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