“Sweet Singing in the Choi/r/”: How Spoken Dialect Affects Choral Phonology in Glasgow and Cambridge
Journal of English Linguistics
Published online on May 07, 2026
Abstract
Journal of English Linguistics, Ahead of Print.
British classical choirs are thought to use a prestige accent when singing in English. In Scotland there are two available prestige accents, local (SSE), and supralocal (SSBE). Does local consonant phonology affect choral phonology? Here, I investigate ...
British classical choirs are thought to use a prestige accent when singing in English. In Scotland there are two available prestige accents, local (SSE), and supralocal (SSBE). Does local consonant phonology affect choral phonology? Here, I investigate ...