Seminars

Topic: Singapore English intonation: teasing out sources of prominence and variation  Speaker: Dr. Adam J. Chong (Senior lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London) Date: 16th November, 2023 (Thursday) Start time: 4:00 pm (HK time) Format: Zoom (Meeting link: https://hku.zoom.us/my/jonahlack)   Abstract:  Singapore English (SgE) is a nativised English variety that displays a number of systematic linguistic features that distinguish it from Western varieties (e.g. British English). In this talk, I present ongoing work on SgE intonation, an under-examined aspect of the linguistic system. I first present a proposal for a phonological model of SgE intonation couched in the Autosegmental Metrical framework. I then discuss the results of [...]