“Yorkshire Assimilation” – Dr Kate Whisker-Taylor and Dr Lynn Clark

There is … reason to believe that YA is constrained by both regional and social factors in ways that again set it apart from more general cases of voice assimilation in English.

– Whisker-Taylor and Clark (223)

In this paper, Whisker-Taylor and Clark explore both the production and perception of Yorkshire Assimilation, a type of voice assimilation specific to Yorkshire, England.

Exploring both the subtle patterns of change over time and the social meaning of this variable has led to a much better understanding of how these two things are connected; how language attitudes or social meanings can result from patterns of language variation and change within the community.

– Whisker-Taylor and Clark (242)

This article can be downloaded here via York St John Institutional Access.