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Clash avoidance and metrical opacity in Singapore English

Some word accentuation patterns in Singapore English are metrically opaque with abutting stressed syllables, eg...

Keywords: stress, Singapore English, stress clash, metrical foot, rhythm

02/2006 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag
Cultural scripts, ways of speaking and perceptions of personal autonomy: Anglo English vs. Singapore English

Every language variety embodies a set of culture-specific ways of thinking that can be articulated with maximal clarity and minimal ethnocentrism in the form of ‘cultural scripts’ using natural semantic metalanguage (NSM)...

Keywords: cultural scripts, Anglo English, Singapore English, natural semantic metalanguage (NSM), personal autonomy

11/2004 | Intercultural Pragmatics, Walter de Gruyter