English in Singapore : phonetic research on a corpus
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English in Singapore : phonetic research on a corpus
McGraw-Hill Education, c2005
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"Copyright c2005 by McGraw-Hill Education (Asia)" -- T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book is a collection of articles on research into the pronunciation of Singapore English by scholars from Singapore, Asia (Japan, Taiwan), Europe (the United Kingdom, Germany), Australia and the United States of America. The articles in this new collection focus on two broad areas: specific features of Singapore English pronunciation: vowels, consonants, stress and intonation; and the intelligibility of Singapore English to listeners from around the world. The second area is of great interest to Singaporeans as it is important to ascertain how intelligible this prominent and vibrant Asian variety of English is internationally and not just intra-nationally. The common feature of all the articles is that they make use of data from the NIE Corpus of Spoken Singapore English, which consists of high-quality recordings that are ideally suited to detailed phonetic research. Therefore, even though the researchers are investigating a wide range of different topics connected with pronunciation, all the studies maintain a focus on the same corpus of data. The book is accompanied by two CD-ROMs, one containing the whole corpus and another containing the extracts used in the chapters.
The CD-ROMs will be useful to any reader who wishes to listen to the actual speech samples used by the researchers. The final chapter of the book is a bibliography of over 250 references on research into the pronunciation of Singapore English. The book will be of great value to researchers, and post-graduate and undergraduate students of the phonetics of world varieties of English.
Table of Contents
Contents
Introduction
Contributors
Background
1 The NIE corpus of spoken Singapore English
2 A checklist of Singapore English pronunciation features Consonants
3 The realization of final plosives in Singapore English: phonological rules and ethnic differences
4 Past tense suffixes and other final plosives in Singapore English
5 Added final plosives in Singapore English
6 Vocalization of /l/ in Singapore English Vowels
7 Reduced vowels in conversational Singapore English
8 Triphthongs in Singapore English Suprasegmentals
9 Rhythm in Singapore and British English: a comparative study of indexes
10 Prominence in Singapore and American English: evidence from reading aloud
11 Observations on British and Singaporean perception of prominence
12 Discourse intonation variants in the speech of educated Singaporeans Conversation analysis
13 Investigating turn-taking in the NIE corpus of spoken Singapore English
14 Exchange rhythm in Singapore English in a cross-cultural context Intelligibility
15 Inter-accent and inter-cultural intelligibility: a study of listeners in Singapore and Britain
16 The intelligibility of Singaporean English: a case study in an Australian university
17 Listening to other Englishes: British listeners on Singapore speakers
18 The intelligibility of Singapore English from a Japanese perspective
Bibliography
19 A bibliography on Singapore English pronunciation
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"