Sociophonetics–the interface of sociolinguistics and phonetics–is a field that has expanded
rapidly in recent years. A subject that requires both methodological and theoretical …

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 …

This paper provides a detailed description of the pronunciation of English by fifteen fourth-
year undergraduates at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. First, the occurrence of …

Combining the World Englishes framework with First Language Acquisition methodology,
this book investigates children's acquisition of L1 English in the context of multilingual …

This paper makes an instrumental analysis of English vowel monophthongs produced by 47
female Malaysian speakers. The focus is on the distribution of Malaysian English vowels in …

In the past, the vowels of Singapore English (SgE) have often been described with reference
to British English (BrE). However, certain idiosyncratic patterns are now emerging, and these …

The term sociophonetics refers to the interface of sociolinguistics and phonetics, and
specifically to the use of modern phonetic methods in the quantitative analysis of language …

Some pronunciation features that are not found in Inner Circle varieties of English are
shared by the Englishes of Singapore, the rest of ASEAN, and China, and in some cases …

Past studies suggest that monolingual and bilingual infants respond differently to race
information in face discrimination and social learning tasks. In particular, bilingual infants …