Singapore English is a nativised variety of English, which comes in essentially two forms:
Standard Singapore English and Colloquial Singapore English. This article describes the …

Language and culture are concepts increasingly found at the heart of developments in
applied linguistics and related fields. Taken together, they can provide interesting and useful …

In recent years the study of English and its global varieties has grown rapidly as a field of
study. The English language in Singapore, famous for its vernacular known as' Singlish', is …

Singapore is placed in the Outer Circle of the Kachru's Three Circles Model, and has over
the years developed an English which is uniquely Singaporean. This paper argues that in …

The multidimensional analysis (MDA) approach was originally developed by Biber to
compare written and spoken registers in English, but it has since been applied extensively in …

Language attitude studies have shown that the majority language and its speakers tend to
be rated positively along status, intelligence, and power dimensions ('Educated','Successful' …

ABSTRACT Singapore Colloquial English (SCE) or 'Singlish'is a variety very distinct from
Singapore Standardised English (SSE), and its use is a polarising issue in Singaporean …

The study reported in this article examined Hong Kong students' attitudes towards English
accents from three interrelated perspectives:(1) their awareness of accents,(2) their …

By taking a generative approach to the investigation of two phonological patterns (L‐
vocalization and tone assignment) in the Englishes spoken in Singapore and Hong Kong …

This study investigates the possible influence of L1 structures on the linguistic system of
New Englishes. It focuses on the realization of final consonant clusters in two 'new'varieties …