Ebtehal Ali A Alasiri
email - e.asiry.1@research.gla.ac.uk
Research title: Intra-ethnic variation in London and Glasgow Iraqi English: A sociophonetic study
Research Summary
My project is a sociophonetic study of the English spoken by first-generation Iraqi Arab speakers in two UK cities, namely London and Glasgow.
It investigates phonetic variation in the realisation of word- initial and final /l/, VOT in word- initial stops, FACE and GOAT vowels in Iraqi English, with the aim of uncovering the possible impact of intra-ethnic demographic and socioeconomic diversity on Iraqis' sociolinguistic identity.