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, 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.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Linguistics

Year dc:date.issued

2011

Author dc:creator

• Wileman, Bruce

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Mesthrie, Rajend

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11442

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11442