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Publication details [#56460]

Tan, Ying Ying. 2012. Age as a factor in ethnic accent identification in Singapore. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 33 (6) : 569–587.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accent1 | age | ethnicity | evaluation | language policy

Language as a subject

English, Singapore

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study reveals interesting age-related patterns in ethnicity identification of speakers of Singapore English. Young Singaporeans may perhaps be unable to distinguish ethnic variations, due to national policies and their own (lacking) ethnic consciousness.