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The Acoustic Characteristics of Diphthongs in Indian English
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Maxwell, Olga; Fletcher, Janet – World Englishes, 2010
This paper presents the results of an acoustic analysis of English diphthongs produced by three L1 speakers of Hindi and four L1 speakers of Punjabi. Formant trajectories of rising and falling diphthongs (i.e., vowels where there is a clear rising or falling trajectory through the F1/F2 vowel space) were analysed in a corpus of citation-form…
Descriptors: Vowels, Acoustics, English (Second Language), Indo European Languages
Towards a Phonology of Hong Kong English.
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Hung, Tony T. N. – World Englishes, 2000
Discusses findings in the first part of a research project on Hong Kong English (HKE) phonology, including the underlying phonemic system of HKE speakers. Subjects were 15 undergraduates at Hong Kong Baptist University. Using spectrographic analysis, it was found that the typical HKE speaker operates with a considerably smaller set of vowel and…
Descriptors: College Students, Consonants, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries