A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

fricative Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.3 3.1 0 0 58.1 10.3 0
Number of occurrences176 0 0 10 1 0
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of fricative in Corpus

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Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
hummart, wi an initial dental fricative, is an interestin variant. Th
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
The fricative ‘ch’ soond is anither ken
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
The fricative soond ‘-ch’, aye present
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
happen tae share the kenable fricative “ch” soond that lowps tae
ause [x] is a voiceless velar fricative while [ç] is a voiceless pal
e [ç] is a voiceless palatal fricative.
3 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
r a combination o a stop an a fricative; approximants onli maks a bra on page 25
f voiceless labiodental fricative /fɔɪ/ (foy) on page 26

10 matches

Southern

Purves, David Lallans 75 - Gie Us Back Oor Place Names, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Southern, prose
he Willowbrae Road. The velar fricative in haugh is whyles tint, sae
1 matches

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