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Regional variation in South African English : a socio-phonetic comparison of young white speakers in Cape Town and Durban
This research has been designed to investigate regional differences in a variety of South African English known as General South African English, between the White communities of Durban and Cape Town respectively. The research is socio-phonetic in its focus and therefore three variables, the PRICE,...
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| author | Wileman, Bruce |
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| description | This research has been designed to investigate regional differences in a variety of South African English known as General South African English, between the White communities of Durban and Cape Town respectively. The research is socio-phonetic in its focus and therefore three variables, the PRICE, NURSE and KIT vowels of Wells’ (1982) lexical sets, were selected for acoustic analysis, a selection which was guided partly by the researcher’s own intuitions and partly by observed correlations in the impressionistic literature between certain realisations of these vowels and the Cape and Kwa-Zulu Natal as regions. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11442 Regional variation in South African English : a socio-phonetic comparison of young white speakers in Cape Town and Durban Wileman, Bruce Mesthrie, Rajend Linguistics This research has been designed to investigate regional differences in a variety of South African English known as General South African English, between the White communities of Durban and Cape Town respectively. The research is socio-phonetic in its focus and therefore three variables, the PRICE, NURSE and KIT vowels of Wells’ (1982) lexical sets, were selected for acoustic analysis, a selection which was guided partly by the researcher’s own intuitions and partly by observed correlations in the impressionistic literature between certain realisations of these vowels and the Cape and Kwa-Zulu Natal as regions. 2015-01-05T18:39:56Z 2015-01-05T18:39:56Z 2011 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11442 eng application/pdf Linguistics Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Linguistics Wileman, Bruce Regional variation in South African English : a socio-phonetic comparison of young white speakers in Cape Town and Durban |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Regional variation in South African English : a socio-phonetic comparison of young white speakers in Cape Town and Durban |
| title_full | Regional variation in South African English : a socio-phonetic comparison of young white speakers in Cape Town and Durban |
| title_fullStr | Regional variation in South African English : a socio-phonetic comparison of young white speakers in Cape Town and Durban |
| title_full_unstemmed | Regional variation in South African English : a socio-phonetic comparison of young white speakers in Cape Town and Durban |
| title_short | Regional variation in South African English : a socio-phonetic comparison of young white speakers in Cape Town and Durban |
| title_sort | regional variation in south african english a socio phonetic comparison of young white speakers in cape town and durban |
| topic | Linguistics |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11442 |
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