Abstract
It is regularly asserted that the interface between the dialects of southern Scotland and those of the far north of England is still a relatively sharp one, and that it persists in coinciding closely with the political border in spite of the presence of conditions which, in other contexts, have been shown to promote linguistic convergence. In this chapter, we explore some of the phonetic evidence we have gathered in order to test these claims.
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Watt, D., Llamas, C., Johnson, D.E. (2014). Sociolinguistic Variation on the Scottish-English Border. In: Lawson, R. (eds) Sociolinguistics in Scotland. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137034717_5
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