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Prosodic Variation in Southern British English.
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Peppe, Sue; Maxim, Jane; Wells, Bill – Language and Speech, 2000
Cross-speaker variability in the use of prosodic features in intonation was investigated through analysis of adult speakers of English from London, England, using a new prosodic test battery (PEPS). PEPS is designed to elicit information about how speakers use prosodic features to realize different types of linguistic and communicative functions…
Descriptors: Adults, English, Foreign Countries, Intonation
A Contrastive Study of Prosody and Lexical Stress Placement in Singapore English and British English.
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Ling, Low Ee; Grabe, Esther – Language and Speech, 1999
Tests experimentally whether stress placement in polysyllabic words differs in Singapore English (SE) and British English (BE), or whether acoustic correlates of stress differ in the two English varieties. Results suggest word-final stress in SE is not result of lexical stress placement, but combination of lengthening of final-syllable words in…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Countries