Revisiting English prosody: (Some) New Englishes as tone languages?

Lim, Lisa

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“…Our study follows recent investigations of the intonational systems of new English varieties within an autosegmental-metrical framework (for an overview, see Gussenhoven, 2014), without imposing a BrE intonational structure onto SgE (Tan, 2006;Lim, 2009). The focus in these studies has predominantly been on characterizing the tonal inventory and tonal association rules in new English varieties, particularly what some have argued to be tonal varieties (Gussenhoven, 2014; see also Lim, 2009).…”

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“…The focus in these studies has predominantly been on characterizing the tonal inventory and tonal association rules in new English varieties, particularly what some have argued to be tonal varieties (Gussenhoven, 2014; see also Lim, 2009). Our current investigation differs from this thread in focusing primarily on prosodic constituency (vs. intonational melody) in investigating durational correlates of the AP.…”

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The Accentual Phrase in Singapore English

Chong¹,

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2016

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This paper reports on a speech production experiment that explores whether the accentual phrase (AP) represents an abstract level of prosodic phrasing in Singapore English. Specifically, it tests whether the right edge of the AP is associated with phrase-final lengthening, the degree of which can be distinguished from lengthening associated with the intonational phrase (IP). Target words were produced in matched sentence contexts in 3 phrasal positions: AP-medial (wordfinal), AP-final, and IP-final. As predicted, target words in AP-final position were longer than those in AP-medial position and shorter than those in IP-final position. Analysis of target duration and f0 together shows that AP boundaries are well discriminated from medial positions. Together, these results strongly support an AP level of phrasing for Singapore English and highlight its role in predicting timing variability.

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The Accentual Phrase in Singapore English

Chong¹,

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2016

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“…Another point concerns the status of finiteness as a typological feature. Given its absence from the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS; Haspelmath et al 2008), there is a question about whether finiteness works as a feature of areal typology, in the same way as tone, for example (see Lim 2009). …”

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Aspects of the morphosyntactic typology of Hong Kong English

Gisborne

2009

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English and Cantonese are the main two languages in contact in Hong Kong, together with some other minority Sinitic languages and a variety of Austronesian languages spoken by domestic helpers. Cantonese and English are typologically dissimilar in terms of word order, tense, mood and aspect marking, noun phrase structure, relative clause formation, the formation of interrogatives, and argument structure. Yet there is no work which systematically explores how these morphosyntactic typological differences are revealed in Hong Kong English (HKE). This paper explores how a typological perspective facilitates an analysis of the expression of finiteness in HKE, a significant feature because it subsumes a number of other typological facts. The analysis claims that HKE is a new English variety where the typology of the substrate is more directly responsible for the morphosyntactic features under analysis than the typology of the lexifier.

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“…5 The emergent variety of English, Singlish (or colloquial or basilectal Singapore English), 6 which exhibits particular phonological patterning, syntax and vocabulary derived from the various local languages, in particular Malay, Hokkien, and Cantonese (see e.g. Ansaldo 2004Ansaldo , 2009Bao 2001Bao , 2005Bao and Lye 2005;Bao and Wee 1999;Lim 2004aLim , 2009bWee 2004;Wee and Ansaldo 2004), can in fact be said to be much more Asian than English (Ansaldo 2009). Crucially it is this variety of English which fulfils identification and integrative functions for Singaporeans.…”

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“…Fong, Lim and Wee 2002;Lim 2004bLim , 2007Lim , 2009b I have shown a preference for a term such as colloquial Singapore English (also more widely used in most SgE scholarship) rather than Singlish, as the latter tends to evoke numerous negative connotations, I have chosen to use Singlish here, partly to be in line with the term used in the various discourses discussed in this paper, and partly to underline its proximity more to Asian varieties than English (also see Lim fc b).…”

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Beyond fear and loathing in SG

Lim

2009

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This paper considers the real mother tongues of Singapore, namely the Chinese 'dialects' and Singlish, the linguistic varieties which, respectively, arrived with the original immigrants to the rapidly developing British colony, and evolved in the dynamic multilingual ecology over the decades. Curiously these mother tongues have been regarded with fear and treated with loathing in the official language policies and accompanying prestige planning that have been developed and executed in Singapore since independence, being actively denigrated and discouraged in official discourse, viewed as not having a place in the globalization goals of the nation. Looking beyond the official line and census figures, actual linguistic practices of the community of speakers testify to the vitality of these varieties, in spite of the official sanctions; moreover, in spite of itself, the government does in fact allow itself the use of these mother tongues when certain contexts call for it. This paper suggests that an enlightened consideration of native 'dialects' and nativized Singlish and the plurilingual practices in which they are used, as well as of the question of intelligibility, must point policy makers in directions where fears are assuaged and spaces made for the natural existence and evolution of such varieties in multilingual ecologies. Fear and loathing in SGIn an age where vernaculars, whether endangered languages spoken by a last community or languages with minority status in larger nation states, are receiving greater (positive) recognition, support and funding, from linguistic organizations and bodies such as UNESCO, it is always intriguing to examine a context where the mother tongue of a people is regarded with fear and loathing. This paper has as its focus the real mother tongues of Singapore's multilingual population -not the officially designated 'Mother Tongues' (MTs) of English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil, which are the linguistic varieties which are officially associated with the official races of the state, namely Chinese, Malay and Indian, and learnt as second languages in school, but the actual linguistic varieties that arrived with the original immigrants to Singapore or that have evolved in the Singapore context.While this paper has as its main focus the English language, the situation with the Chinese languages is also examined, first because it parallels that of English, as will be seen in the sections following, and second because the possibility of (a) Chinese language(s) as competitor to English needs to be considered. In examining English, a significant aspect involves the contact dynamics of Singapore's multilingual context and the emergent variety of English which has been nativized and

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Revisiting English prosody: (Some) New Englishes as tone languages?

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The Accentual Phrase in Singapore English

The Accentual Phrase in Singapore English

Aspects of the morphosyntactic typology of Hong Kong English

Beyond fear and loathing in SG

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