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Black South African English: A New English? Observations from a Phonetic Viewpoint.
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Wissing, Daan – World Englishes, 2002
Investigates the extent to which users of Black South African English (BSAE) command the vowel system of English. One mother tongue speaker each of English, Southern Sotho, and Zulu read a set of stimulus words representing various monothong contrasts in standard South African English. Results are discussed in relation to the question of whether…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Interlanguage
Stress Placement in Tswana English: The Makings of a Coherent System.
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van Rooy, Bertus – World Englishes, 2002
Investigates stress placement in one variety of Black South African English (BSAE), namely Tswana English. A corpus of 333 polysyllabic words was analyzed in detail to determine the properties of the Tswana English stress system; properties were interpreted by means of optimality theory. Concludes that stress is stored lexically in function words,…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Variation