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4 - Indian English prosody

from Part I - English in selected regional and national habitats with a glance at the role of outward-bound communication needs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2016

Gerhard Leitner
Affiliation:
Freie Universität Berlin
Azirah Hashim
Affiliation:
University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
Hans-Georg Wolf
Affiliation:
Universität Potsdam, Germany
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This chapter reviews studies on Indian English prosody, in the main, syllable structure, word-stress, speech rhythm, intonation and information structure. The review is supplemented with a critical discussion of the investigations of the prosodic features, especially those that have a bearing on related issues, such as word-stress, and that are a major factor in the difference between native varieties of English (NE, for short) and Indian varieties of English (IndE, for short). The topics are presented with a view to approaching the problem of difficulties in the communicative import of IndE speech.

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Communicating with Asia
The Future of English as a Global Language
, pp. 56 - 68
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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