Cape Town as a multilingual city

Deumert, Ana; Mpazayabo, Sandrine; Thompson, Miché

doi:10.4324/9780429436468-19

“…isiXhosa, and 30% spoke English. 2 While other languages are also spoken in the city, the colonial languages of Afrikaans and English are particularly common in official settings, on public signage and in writing [9,10]. During apartheid rule, the non-white isiXhosa speakers were only allowed to settle in designated areas like Langa.…”

Section: Langa and Isixhosa: Multilingualismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Like in many other linguistic communities, code-switching in isiXhosa is stigmatised [9,10]. Varieties of isiXhosa spoken in the Eastern Cape, an ancestral homeland of the amaXhosa people, carry a lot of prestige, however [12].…”

Section: Code-switchingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Automatic Transcription and (De)Standardisation

Markl,

Wallington,

Klejch

et al. 2023

2nd Annual Meeting of the ELRA/ISCA SIG on Under-Resourced Languages (SIGUL 2023)

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“…The Ward method, often also called the 'minimum variance method,' was used for clustering since it has proven relevant for the TLS data analysis (Moisl, 2015) and in several other linguistic studies (Deumert, 1999;Gries, 2009). It also minimises intra-cluster variance (Janssens et al, 2008;Gries, 2009) so as to limit the number of groups containing one or two speakers (see Amand, 2019 for a comparison of clustering methods on the full TLS data).…”

Section: Multiple Factorial Analysis + Clustering In Language Variationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating (in)coherence in Tyneside English(es): sociophonetic variation spectrums of face, goat, price and mouth in the DECTE corpus

AMAND

2023

Espaces Linguistiques

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The present study investigates the co-occurrence of face, goat, price and mouth vocalic variants in the Tyneside Linguistic Survey (TLS, Strang, 1968). The analysis is based on the original fine-grained transcriptions of the TLS sociolinguistic interviews across a sample of 44 predominantly working-class speakers (men/women, older, middle-aged and teenagers). Multiple Factorial Analysis and cluster analysis were combined to identify sub-groupings in the variety based on the entirety of the transcriptions (consonants, stressed and reduced vowels), and to investigate coherence across these vocalic variants. The results point towards major gender and class effects with four clusters of speakers characterised by varying degrees of accentedness. Overall, lower-status women and slightly higher-status women distinguish themselves through distinct variant choices. Differences amongst men of either status can best be measured through the extent to which they use the traditional variants.

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“…The Ward method, often also called the 'minimum variance method,' was used for clustering since it has proven relevant for the TLS data analysis (Moisl, 2015) and in several other linguistic studies (Deumert, 1999;Gries, 2009). It also minimises intra-cluster variance (Janssens et al, 2008;Gries, 2009) so as to limit the number of groups containing one or two speakers (see Amand, 2019 for a comparison of clustering methods on the full TLS data).…”

Section: Multiple Factorial Analysis + Clustering In Language Variationmentioning

confidence: 99%