ABSTRACT Research on Singapore English has concentrated on segmental rather than
prosodic aspects although it is prosody that contributes most to its distinctive character. The …

The segmental characteristics of the English spoken in Singapore are quite widely
described (eg Tongue 1979, Platt and Weber 1980, Brown 1988a, Brown 1991). However …

Intonation plays a number of different roles in English, and each of these requires a different
approach. Three major roles are identified and examined, and the possibility of a fourth is …

A long tradition of intonation analysis in Britain has recognised that English utterances are
divided into chunks, or intonational phrases—variously described as word groups, tone …

The aim of this paper is to offer a discourse perspective on the intonation of Singapore
English (SE). As a framework for my description, I have used the model of discourse …

The present paper describes the patterns of Hungarian sentence intonation using the model
developed by Goldsmith (1982). In Part 1, we attempt to motivate this particular choice of …

'It has often been remarked that the essential auditory identity of a language, the immediate
impression conveyed upon a first or a passing encounter, derives from the character of its …

A new model of intonational phonology is here developed, based primarily on the'tone
sequence'approaches of Bruce & Gårding 1978 and Pierrehumbert 1980. As in those works …

The best thing to do with a good idea is to knock it down and replace it with a better one. Of
the different models of intonation that have been proposed, the'British'model as put forward …

1. Background English is the official language of nearly 50 different countries and is
currently spoken as a first language by over 300 million people (Crystal 1988). Among the …