"This hair-style called as 'duck tail'": The 'intrusive as' -construction in South Asian varieties of English and Learner Englishes

Koch, Christopher; Lange, Claudia; Leuckert, Sven

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“…By contrast, the fact that the interaction between length of run and articulation rate (as longer utterances are spoken at a faster rate) occurs for both the Nigerian and Scottish speakers analysed in the pilot study suggests that for both groups the interplay between Formulator and Articulator processes is the same and is arguably governed by 'soft preplanning' (Liberman & Pierrehumbert 1984;Fery & Kügler 2008) in both varieties. The present pilot study thus contributes to the ongoing debate on differences between and similarities of Inner Circle, Outer Circle and Expanding Circle varieties in phonology (Fuchs & Wunder 2015;Götz 2015;Gut et al 2015), lexis (Callies 2016;Edwards & Lange 2016) as well as morphology and syntax (Edwards 2014;Edwards & Laporte 2015;Gilquin 2015;Gilquin & Granger 2011;Koch et al 2016;Meriläinen & Paulasto 2017;Schneider & Gilquin 2016).…”

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Exploring speaker fluency with phonologically annotated ICE corpora

Gut

Fuchs

2017

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This study demonstrates how quantitative characteristics of speaker fluency can be measured in the phonologically annotated and time‐aligned corpora ICE‐Nigeria and ICE‐Scotland, which belong to the ‘new generation’ of ICE corpora. Some files from the categories broadcast talk and unscripted speeches in ICE Nigeria and ICE Scotland were phonemically annotated and analysed, and for each speaker the mean length of run ( = average number of words per utterance) and articulation rate ( = mean number of phonemes per total articulation time) were calculated. These results show how phonological and time‐aligned annotations can enrich ICE corpora, and how they allow comparisons of varieties of English that go beyond studies of syntactic and lexical variation.

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“…), lexis (Callies ; Edwards & Lange ) as well as morphology and syntax (Edwards ; Edwards & Laporte ; Gilquin ; Gilquin & Granger ; Koch et al. ; Meriläinen & Paulasto ; Schneider & Gilquin ).…”

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Exploring speaker fluency with phonologically annotated ICE corpora

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Fuchs

2017

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“…An update to the current subcorpus lineup is in progress, with such states/union territories as Gujarat, Maharashtra, Odisha, Tripura, and NCT Delhi currently being worked on. The newspapers already included in CORINNE as well as background information including the region and state where they are published, the time span and categories included in the corpus, as well as the total word count are presented in Table 1: For our case study, we continue our previous analyses of the 'intrusive as' construction (Koch et al 2016;Lange 2016) using two subcorpora of CORINNE as our data. After an introduction to the construction, we highlight the potential of analysing 'intrusive as' as a contact-induced feature.…”

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“…Studies by Koch et al (2016) and Lange (2016) consider 'intrusive as' in different corpora and contexts. As the first major publication on the subject, Lange (2016) focussed on the construction in spoken and written IndE using the ICE-India corpus as well as the SAVE corpus.…”

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“…Next, Section 4 presents the background to our case study of the 'intrusive as' construction. Previous studies by Koch et al (2016) and Lange (2016) have shown that this construction has found its way into formal written English in Indian newspapers, which is why we selected it for the first case study based on CORINNE. Section 5 gives the results and a discussion of the case study and Section 6 concludes the paper by foreshadowing potential research avenues using CORINNE as well as the future of the corpus.…”

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Comparing written Indian Englishes with the new Corpus of Regional Indian Newspaper Englishes (CORINNE)

2021

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This article introduces the new Corpus of Regional Indian Newspaper Englishes (CORINNE). The current version of CORINNE contains news and other text types from regional Indian newspapers published between 2015 and 2020, covering 13 states and regions so far. The corpus complements previous corpora, such as the Indian component of the International Corpus of English (ICE) as well as the Indian section of the South Asian Varieties of English (SAVE) corpus, by giving researchers the opportunity to analyse and compare regional (written) Englishes in India. In the first sections of the paper we discuss the rationale for creating CORINNE as well as the development of the corpus. We stress the potential of CORINNE and go into detail about selection criteria for the inclusion of newspapers as well as corpus compilation and the current word count. In order to show the potential of the corpus, the paper presents a case study of ‘intrusive as’, a syntactic feature that has made its way into formal registers of Indian English. Based on two subcorpora covering newspapers from Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand, we compare frequencies and usage patterns of call (as) and term (as). The case study lends further weight to the hypothesis that the presence or absence of a quotative in the majority language spoken in an Indian state has an impact on the frequency of ‘intrusive as’. Finally, we foreshadow the next steps in the development of CORINNE as well as potential studies that can be carried out using the corpus.

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2020

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English as a lingua franca (ELF) has become ubiquitous in today's globalised, mobile and fast-changing world. It is clear that it will have an unprecedented impact not only on how we communicate but also on our understanding of language use and change. What exactly ELF brings to our life and to language theory is a question which requires an interdisciplinary take. This book gathers together leading scholars from world Englishes, typology, language history, cognitive linguistics, translation studies, multilingualism, sociolinguistics and ELF research itself to seek state-of-the-art answers. Chapters present original insights on language change, based on theoretical approaches and empirical studies, and provide clear examples of social, interactional and cognitive changes that ELF instigates. The picture which unfolds on the pages of this book is complex, dynamic and makes a convincing case for the importance of English as a lingua franca on language change at a global scale.

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"This hair-style called as 'duck tail'": The 'intrusive as' -construction in South Asian varieties of English and Learner Englishes

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Exploring speaker fluency with phonologically annotated ICE corpora

Exploring speaker fluency with phonologically annotated ICE corpora

Comparing written Indian Englishes with the new Corpus of Regional Indian Newspaper Englishes (CORINNE)

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