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Speech Rhythm in Varieties of English - Evidence from Educated Indian English and British English (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
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Speech Rhythm in Varieties of English - Evidence from Educated Indian English and British English (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics
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This book addresses the question whether Educated Indian English is
more syllable-timed than British English from two standpoints:
production and perception. Many post-colonial varieties of English,
which are mostly spoken as a second language in countries such as
India, Nigeria and the Philippines, are thought to have a
syllable-timed rhythm, whereas first language varieties such as
British English are characterized as being stress-timed. While
previous studies mostly relied on a single acoustic correlate of
speech rhythm, usually duration, the author proposes a
multidimensional approach to the production of speech rhythm that
takes into account various acoustic correlates. The results reveal
that the two varieties differ with regard to a number of
dimensions, such as duration, sonority, intensity, loudness, pitch
and glottal stop insertion. The second part of the study addresses
the question whether the difference in speech rhythm between Indian
and British English is perceptually relevant, based on
intelligibility and dialect discrimination experiments. The results
reveal that speakers generally find the rhythm of their own variety
more intelligible and that listeners can identify which variety a
speaker is using on the basis of differences in speech rhythm.
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