Social class differentiation in South African Indian English : a sociophonetic study of three vowel variables

Since Mesthrie's (1992) pioneering work on South African Indian English (SAIE), very little work has been done on SAIE exclusively. Therefore enough time has passed to test his findings and postulations with current data, new variables, and new techniques. In particular the paper draws on progress in acoustic sociophonetics in the description of the vowels of the GOOSE, NURSE and THOUGHT sets, and basic statistics.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Linguistics

Year dc:date.issued

2011

Author dc:creator

• Chevalier, Alida

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Mesthrie, Rajend

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10190

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10190