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Discourse Intonation has been used in the study of a wide variety of speech styles. Increasingly, DI is being used to investigate the properties of non-standard accents of English: these include Malaysian and Singaporean English, Hong Kong English, and Rhondda Valleys English. This section features specially written articles concerning such applications of DI. |
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No. 1. Malaysian and Singaporean English, by Christine Goh |
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Christine Goh teaches at the National Insitute of Education of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She obtained her MA from the University of Birmingham and her PhD from the University of Lancaster. She writes about Malaysian and Singaporean English, of which she says the 'phonological features that are different from British English include ... variations in word stress, rhythm, and intonation.' You can read her paper here (95k pdf document).
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Rod Walters has written the second 'Applications of Discourse Intonation'. Rod is a Senior Lecturer at The University of Glamorgan. He obtained both a PGCE and an MA from the University of Birmingham. His doctorate (University of Glamorgan) was on Dialect Phonology in Rhondda Valleys English. The Rhondda Valleys lie just north of Cardiff in South Wales. They were home to a huge coal-mining industry which was at its height between 1800 and 1950. You can download his paper (a 585k pdf document) here.
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Grace Wang teaches at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand and conducts advanced training programmes on writing at the United Nations, ESCAP, in Bangkok. She obtained her MA from the University of Birmingham. Grace writes about the Korean intonation of people doing the map task (from David Brazil's Pronunciation for Advanced Learners of English, Unit 2). You can download her paper (a 211k pdf document) here.
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