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Publication details [#60416]

Mesthrie, Raj, Alida Chevalier and Timothy Dunne. 2015. A Regional and Social Dialectology of the BATH Vowel in South African English. Language Variation and Change 27 (1) : 1–30.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialectology | ethnicity | gender | urban community | vowel

Language as a subject

English, South African

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study marks the onset of a pan–South African English dialectology, featuring five cities (Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Kimberley, and Port Elizabeth) and four ethnicities (Black, Colored, Indian, and White), via a sole vowel, BATH (or /ɑ:/). Statistical analysis centers on city-ethnicity-gender links.