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2 - Changing Sounds in a Changing City

An Acoustic Phonetic Investigation of Real-Time Change over a Century of Glaswegian

from Part I - Changing Places

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2017

Chris Montgomery
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield
Emma Moore
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield
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Language and a Sense of Place
Studies in Language and Region
, pp. 38 - 64
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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