Actually in Spoken Singapore English

The morpho-syntax of Standard Scottish English

With empirical research on Standard Scottish English showing a bias towards phonology, the aim of the current study is to contribute to the morpho-syntactic documentation of this variety. Relying on Standard Southern British English for comparison, we concentrate on four eWAVE features on which the varieties have...

Young Singaporean English

The analysis of newly or recently emerged grammatical and lexical forms in Colloquial Singapore English is the main objective of this Element. Using corpus, survey, and interview data from different age groups, we shed light on the spread of language change across generations and ethnicities. Existing descriptions of C...

The Use of Pragmatic Markers in the Chinese Play Thunderstorm and Their Translation into Russian

Cao Yu’s drama “Thunderstorm” is an outstanding work of great significance in Chinese literature and the history of Chinese theater. Dramatic works extensively feature colloquial vocabulary and traits of oral discourse. In particular, the stylized speech of characters actively employs various pragmatic markers (PMs). P...

The Phonological System of Singapore English: Features, Origins, and Implications in a Global Context

This review takes a look at and breaks down the phonological system of Singapore English (SgE), known as Singlish, whilst going on to compare it with mainstream Australian English (AusE). Doing this by drawing on research in experimental phonetics, as well as sociophonetics and sociolinguistics, the study identifies th...

Chinese Demonstratives and Their Spoken Forms in a Conversational Corpus

(t,d) in East Anglia: Morphological and Phonological Patterns

(t,d) deletion is widely investigated in US English, yet comparatively much less research has been carried out in the UK, where (t,d) was mainly examined in northern British English varieties. This paper examines (t,d) deletion in the speech of thirty-six East Anglian speakers, stratified by social class, age, and sex....