Browsing by Subject "South African English"
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Adapting a pronunciation dictionary to Standard South African English for automatic speech recognition
(North-West University, 2009)The pronunciation dictionary is a key resource required during the development of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. In this thesis, we adapt a British English pronunciation dictionary to Standard South African ... -
Convergence and endonormativity at phase 4 of the dynamic model
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014)At Phase 4 of the Dynamic Model, Schneider (2007) postulates that a stable postcolonial English will gain acceptance in a country, and become endonormative, but it will also be perceived as homogenous. This paper argues ... -
The development of modals of obligation and necessity in white South African English through contact with Afrikaans
(Sage, 2014)This article draws attention to the uniqueness of modality in White South African English (WSAfE), when compared with other native English varieties. This uniqueness is found in the historical development of the modal ... -
Do the Modals of Black and White South African English Converge?
(Sage, 2014)Convergence between native and nonnative varieties, the so-called settler and indigenous strands of English in postcolonial settings, is a characteristic of the fourth phase in Schneider’s dynamic model of English. The ... -
Lockdown language : online communication in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic
(North-West University (South Africa), 2022)Linguistic studies on South African Englishes and the multilingual repertoires of local citizens have been growing in recent years. Seminal work is being done to describe South African Englishes from phonological, ... -
Modality on trek : diachronic changes in written South African English across text and context
(North West University, 2014)This study describes the diachronic development of modality in South African English (henceforth SAfE) from the early 19th century up to its contemporary state (1820s to 1990s) in the registers of letters, news, fiction/narrative ... -
Moet en must : 'n geval van Afrikaanse invloed op Suid-Afrikaanse Engels
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2016)This article investigates the effect of the unique contact situation between users of Afrikaans and the native variety of South African English (SAfE) on the propagation of the distinctive macro-and microsemantic properties ... -
Nursing the cure: a phonetic analysis of /ʊə/ in South African English
(Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, 2013)This article is focused on providing the results of a partially impressionistic and partially acoustic phonetic analysis of the CURE vowel (i.e. /ʊə/ as in cure, tour, sure) in South African English (SAfE) and, in ... -
Regionality in white South African English : an acoustic dialectometric investigation
(2015)There is general consensus in the literature that White South African English (SAE hereafter) historically had a number of regional dialects; but the regional component to this variety was levelled in the mid-20th century. ... -
The role of editorial intervention in ongoing language variation and change in South African and Australian English
(North-West University (South Africa), 2019)The role of editorial intervention in written published texts has been noted by a number of researchers in areas of World Englishes as well as language variation and change. The widely held view of these scholars is that ...