There was something exciting about GC pausing after you said a word, and then going "Say that again please" and you suddenly felt like you were in the principal's office!
I feel like if I got audibly super excited about something it wouldn't be impartial though! I did feel very weird trying to hide everything and just asking people to repeat things.There was something exciting about GC pausing after you said a word, and then going "Say that again please" and you suddenly felt like you were in the principal's office!
100% misread this and thought you were calling the test subject idioticIt is very likely, given certain vowel qualities and the phonotypy as a whole, that this idiolect has been extensively influenced by General American English.
I would definitely say this is true. When I'm back home and in areas where most people speak Doric/Scots I can slip into speaking that with a much stronger accent versus in regular conversation where I'd basically just speak English bar maybe the occasional Scots word and wouldn't have such a stronger accent. I think I also try and lessen my accent when speaking in VC in Euro as well. I still don't think I have a particularly strong accent, but it definitely adjusts and becomes stronger and/or weaker depending on the situation and who I'm speaking with.This speaker is potentially making a conscious separation between their speaking Scottish English and the Scots vernacular. This would account for more RP influences in the prestige register.