An acoustic analysis of White South African English (WSAfE) monophthongs

Bekker, Ian; Eley, Georgina

Title: An acoustic analysis of White South African English (WSAfE) monophthongs
Creator: Bekker, Ian
Creator: Eley, Georgina
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2007
Date: 2007
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/469179
Identifier: vital:77217
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.2989/16073610709486449
Description: This article has two main aims: (1) to introduce instrumental acoustic techniques to the analysis of the WSAfE accent, and (2), to provide tentative evidence for a new prestige value in the Johannesburg (Northern Suburbs) variety of this accent. As such, focus falls on an acoustic analysis of the monophthongs of WSAfE, as produced by ten young South African women in citation-form. Half of the subjects are from the Northern Suburbs of Johannesburg, the other half from East London. The results of the analysis provide some evidence for a new prestige value in the Johannesburg (Northern Suburbs) variety of WSAfE i.e. the lowering and retraction of the so-called TRAP vowel.
Format: 8 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Southern African linguistics and applied language studies
Relation: Bekker, I. and Eley, G., 2007. An acoustic analysis of White South African English (WSAfE) monophthongs. Southern African linguistics and applied language studies, 25(1), pp.107-114
Relation: Southern African linguistics and applied language studies volume 25 number 1 107 114 2007 1727-9461
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