“…Rather, we suggest that the variation indexes political party membership, with a subset of individuals drawing on that indexicality in speech production. This paper integrates the growing body of work on linguistic variation and political identity (e.g., Hall-Lew et al 2010) with studies of accommodation between Scottish and English interlocutors (e.g., Llamas et al 2009) and sociophonetic work in Scottish contexts more generally (e.g., Lawson 2014). Note that a devolved Scottish Parliament sits in Edinburgh, Scotland, with a different set of Members (MSPs; but see Boyd 2012), and so it is the linguistic situation of the Westminster parliament that is of interest.. Scots' use of the English language in the UK Parliament has been taken as a prime example of linguistic accommodation (Carr & Brulard 2006).…”