Uniformity and Variability in the Indian English Accent

Uniformity and Variability in the Indian English Accent

by Caroline R. Wiltshire
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 31/12/2020

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The sounds of Indian English are distinct and recognizable to outsiders, while insiders perceive variations in how English has developed in this large diverse population. What characteristics mark the unity? Which are clues to a speaker's origins or identity? This Element synthesizes research over the past fifty years and adds to it, focusing on selected features of consonants, vowels, and suprasegmentals (stress, intonation, rhythm) to understand the characteristics of Indian English accents and sources of its uniformity and variability. These accent features, perceptible by humans and discoverable by computational approaches, may be used in expressing identity, both local and pan-Indian.

ISBN:
9781108913119
9781108913119
Category:
Sociolinguistics
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
31-12-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press

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