David Crystal's informative account of the rise of English as a global language explores the
history, current status and potential of English as the international language of …

Approaches to Discourse Particles, a collection of twenty-three papers, each written by a
different author, presents an invaluable contribution to both the narrower field of discourse …

An English lingua franca seems to be emerging in the ten ASEAN countries, and this paper
investigates features of the pronunciation of this lingua franca. Twenty speakers, two from …

This paper investigates the contrasting rhythmic properties of two varieties of English:
Singapore English, which is often described as syllable-timed, and British English, which is …

Despite the large number of speakers of English in China, little previous work has been
done to describe their pronunciation. Thirteen young speakers from north-east, east and …

Pronunciation plays a crucial role in learning English as an international language, yet often
remains marginalised by educators due to a lack of required phonetic and phonological …

Title description Singapore English: A grammatical description provides a vivid account of
current, contemporary Singapore English, complementing older seminal accounts of this …

Intonation is a means for conveying information in speech independently of the words.
Central to intonation is variation in speaking pitch over the domain of the utterance, but …

The expansion of the English language produced by non-native speakers has, in recent
decades, been discussed by applied linguists from various theoretical perspectives. The …

In this paper I use data from a contact variety of English used in Singapore, Singlish, to
illustrate some of the issues in the definition of discourse particles. I take one of the major …