A study into the knowledge and use of Scots amongst primary pupils on Upper Deeside /
Blackhall, Sheenaauthor.
University of Aberdeen.
The latter part of the twentieth century brought immense social and cultural change to the area of Upper Deeside. The aim of this sociolinguistic investigation was to study what effect this has had on the speech of 119 primary seven pupils within the community. The hypothesis to be tested was that the extent to which four characteristic North East Scots phonemes were used by 119 primary seven subjects in the Upper Deeside area of Aberdeenshire would vary from speaker to speaker according to the number and nature of links they had with the North East area. This was tested by constructing a system of kin link scoring designed to gather the following data, awarding a score of one for each ticked kin link.

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The latter part of the twentieth century brought immense social and cultural change to the area of Upper Deeside. The aim of this sociolinguistic investigation was to study what effect this has had on the speech of 119 primary seven pupils within the community. The hypothesis to be tested was that the extent to which four characteristic North East Scots phonemes were used by 119 primary seven subjects in the Upper Deeside area of Aberdeenshire would vary from speaker to speaker according to the number and nature of links they had with the North East area. This was tested by constructing a system of kin link scoring designed to gather the following data, awarding a score of one for each ticked kin link.
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Scots language