List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction: Researching the Shetland dialect
Chapter 2: The Shetland Isles: Language and society
Chapter 3: Fieldwork in the Shetland Isles: Methodological issues
Chapter 4: The vocabulary and grammar of the Shetland dialect
Chapter 5: The sound system of the Shetland dialect
Chapter 6: An acoustical survey of the Shetland dialect vowel system
Chapter 7: An acoustical survey of vowel and consonant duration in the Shetland dialect
Chapter 8: Conclusion: The description of the Shetland dialect and areas for future research
References
Index
Biography
Peter Sundkvist is an Associate Professor and Reader in the English Department at Stockholm University. His fields of research include phonology, phonetics, and dialectology, relating to varieties of English and Germanic languages more generally. He has conducted extensive linguistic fieldwork in the Shetland Islands as part of several projects. He has also published on accent stereotypes and Asian Englishes, including those of China and Vietnam.
