It   was thought that as the UK Parliament is based in London ( which you probably already have a go at it is in the south of England ) , when politician from other regions of the land are elect to become Members of Parliament ( military police ) , and move south for workplace , they should start to adopt the   Southern English accent mark . It was expected that this would be particularly honest of Scots politicians move to the capital and losing their native brogue .

This would make sense , as many people with all sorts of different linguistic communication and cultures have noted . When someone moves into an area with unlike accents , they will often bulge out to follow   the idiom of where they have moved to , although this is generally only true if you speak the same words to start out with . The degree of the caricature varies dramatically , but the odd lingual strait oftentimes slip in .

To try out whether or not this was truly the grammatical case with Scottish system of macrophages working in the UK Parliament , researchers looked at the lecture of 10 Scotch politicians over the period of one yr . bring out their result in the journalLanguage Variation and Change , they looked specifically at vowel and their acoustical character , look for any factors that might be influence them .

Interestingly , the team found that while there were no correlations between accent and social course , or where the politician may have grown up , they did observe one between how they talk and their political company . It turn out that those who belonged to the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) articulate the vowel sound in “ true cat ” much low than those from the Scottish Labour Party .

What is interesting here is that this lower “ cat ” vowel sound has antecedently been link with “ anti - institutional ” position in Scotland , something that with their strong desire for an independent Scotland is a salient mind-set within the SNP . The research worker also suggest that by keep a strong Scottish emphasis , they cement their political identity and further length themselves from the Conservatives .

The authors argue that despite being ignored for so long , as social class and political party are hard indicators and drivers of emphasis , they should now be included in any new studies seem into accent variation .

[ H / T : ScienceMag ]