Vowel duration patterns in Scottish English the Scottish vowel length rule in the 21st century Weilinghoff, Andreas creator author. text bibliography stk 2026 monographic eng print xiii, 177 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm The Scottish Vowel Length Rule (SVLR) is a special feature of Scottish English phonology and is said to contrast with the Voicing Effect (VE), the vowel timing pattern found in most other varieties of English. In this in-depth work, Andreas Weilinghoff employs some of the latest speech technology as well as advanced methods in inferential statistics to reveal not only the complex patterns of vowel duration in Scottish English but also how quantity patterns observed in production experiments change in naturally occurring speech.This book brings together different disciplinary areas from Scottish English studies, Sociophonetics to Corpus Linguistics and Computational Linguistics. Andreas J. Weilinghoff. Includes bibliographical references and index. English language Vowels English language Quantity English language Dialects Scotland English language Vowels English language Quantity English language Dialects Scotland 2000-2025 fast PE2104 .W45 2026 427.9411 9781399541978 1399541978 9781399542005 9781399541992 POD UKMGB 251020 20260221223044.1 in00005692181 eng