Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction

Contributors

Background

1 The NIE corpus of spoken Singapore English

2 A checklist of Singapore English pronunciation features Consonants

3 The realization of final plosives in Singapore English: phonological rules and ethnic differences

4 Past tense suffixes and other final plosives in Singapore English

5 Added final plosives in Singapore English

6 Vocalization of /l/ in Singapore English Vowels

7 Reduced vowels in conversational Singapore English

8 Triphthongs in Singapore English Suprasegmentals

9 Rhythm in Singapore and British English: a comparative study of indexes

10 Prominence in Singapore and American English: evidence from reading aloud

11 Observations on British and Singaporean perception of prominence

12 Discourse intonation variants in the speech of educated Singaporeans Conversation analysis

13 Investigating turn-taking in the NIE corpus of spoken Singapore English

14 Exchange rhythm in Singapore English in a cross-cultural context Intelligibility

15 Inter-accent and inter-cultural intelligibility: a study of listeners in Singapore and Britain

16 The intelligibility of Singaporean English: a case study in an Australian university

17 Listening to other Englishes: British listeners on Singapore speakers

18 The intelligibility of Singapore English from a Japanese perspective

Bibliography

19 A bibliography on Singapore English pronunciation

Index

About the Author

David Deterding is Associate Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he has been teaching phonetics, grammar and Chinese-English translation since 1992. Together with Gloria Poedjosoedarmo, he has written two textbooks, The Sounds of English and The Grammar of English, both published by Prentice Hall, and together with Adam Brown and Low Ee Ling, he has edited three books of research papers on Singapore English.