Scottish Vowel Length Rule
- Scottish Vowel Length Rule
The Scottish Vowel Length Rule, also known as Aitken's Law after Professor A.J. Aitken who formulated it, describes how vowel length in Scots and Scottish English is conditioned by environment.
The rule affects all vowels in Central dialects, while in peripheral dialects some vowels remain unaffected.
*IPA| [] , [] , [] , [] and IPA| [a] are usually short.
*IPA| [e] , [i] , [o] , [u] and IPA| [ø] are usually long:
**in stressed syllables before IPA| [v] , [ð] , [z] , [] and IPA| [r] .
**before another vowel and
**before a morpheme boundary.
*IPA| [] , IPA| [] and IPA| [] are usually long in most dialects.
*The diphthong IPA| [i] usually occurs in short environments and IPA| [a] in the long environments described above.
The Scottish Vowel Length Rule is assumed to have come into being between the early Middle Scots and late Middle Scots period.
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