Investigating British Asian accents : studies from Glasgow

Despite the substantial Asian community in the UK, there has been very little phonetic work on British Asian accents. The complementary results from two small-scale studies of Glasgow Asian accent confirm the identification of Glasgow Asian as an recognizable accent, identify accent features particular to Glasgow Asian and not found in Glaswegian more generally, and confirm their use - with specific social-indexical functions - in everyday speech.casl[1] Alam, F. 2007. Language and identity in 'Glaswasian' adolescents. Unpublished MLitt Dissertation. University of Glasgow. [2] Bhatia, T. K. 1993. Punjabi - A Cognitive-Descriptive Grammar. London: Routledge. [3] Eckert, P. 2000. Linguistic Variation as Social Practice. Oxford: Blackwell. [4] Foulkes, P. and Docherty, G. 1999. Urban voices - overview. In Foulkes, P. and Docherty, G. (eds), Urban Voices, London: Arnold, 1-24. [5] Heselwood, B & McChrystal, L 2000. Gender, Accent Features and Voicing. Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics, 8: 45-69. [6] Khan, A. 2003. Reading revisited: dialect levelling within a multi-ethnic British community. Unpublished MA dissertation. University of Reading. [7] Ladefoged, P. and Maddieson, I. 1996. The Sounds of the World's Languages. Oxford: Blackwell. [8] Lambert, K. The Asian Glaswegian accent. Unpublished Undergraduate Dissertation. University of Glasgow. [9] Rogers, H. 2000. The sounds of English. Essex: Pearson. [10] Scobbie, J. and Gordeeva, O. 2006. Phonetic conditioning of word-final ejective stops in the speech of Scottish English pre-school children. BAAP, University of Edinburgh. [11] Shackle, C. 1972. Punjabi: A complete course for beginners. New York: Hodder. [12] Wells, J. C. 1973. Jamaican Pronunciation in London. Oxford: Blackwell. [13] Wells, J. C. 1982. Accents of English. Cambridge: CUP.pub32pu