Publications

Publication details [#56418]

Tan, Ying Ying. 2012. To r or not to r: social correlates of /ɹ/ in Singapore English. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 218 : 1–24.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

attitude | education | phonological variability | social status | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

English, Singapore

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This article explores how occurrences of postvocalic-, intrusive- and linking-r in Singapore English (SgE) correlate to users’ education levels and socioeconomic status.