Indian English

Sailaja, Pingali

doi:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748625949.001.0001

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“…Notably, List A forms are all associated with educated Indian English, the middle-and upperclass subvariety at the apex of the South Asia triangle in Figure 1. They are widely used by balanced bilingual and English-dominant Indians (Balasubramanian, 2009;Pingali, 2009;Sedlatschek, 2009;Sharma, 2005). By contrast, List B features tend to arise in the context of less elite speakers and stronger L1 influence-for example, v/w merger is more stigmatized than the phonetic features in List A (Chand, 2009)-and are associated with the varieties lower down in the Indian triangle in Figure 1.…”

Section: Younger Gen 2 Practice: Selective Adoption Of Educated Indian Englishmentioning

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Social class across borders: Transnational elites in British ideological space

Sharma

2021

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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Studies of generational dialect change in diaspora communities have tended to find that local forces outweigh transnational ones: parent varieties are rejected as too saliently foreign, and transnational effects fade in later generations. Examining the speech of second-generation British Asians, I document this initial shift away from the low status of Indian English, but also unexpected long-distance adoption of Indian English more recently, in both ideology and routine use. Why choose a stigmatized variety 50 years on? To answer this, I revise the classic triangular class hierarchy of British dialects and model diasporic languageideological space as a meeting of two such systems. Young British Asians selectively adopt features of educated Indian English, a variety with increasing global status, at the apex of an Indian hierarchy. For some British Asians, this new exogenous form of symbolic capital is an alternative to the struggle for class mobility within the British system. These new cross-border acts of affiliation empower formerly subordinated speakers, but also reinforce new hierarchies. In closing, I discuss current and historical parallels where a diasporic imaginary can feed local language change.

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Social class across borders: Transnational elites in British ideological space

Sharma

2021

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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“…The pronunciation of the second language (L2) learners, especially learning English, is often effected by several factors [1][2][3] that are influenced by their nativity. This happens mainly because the articulatory movements while speaking English are dominated by the articulatory constraints from the speaker's native language [4]. In order to overcome these constraints, a video that shows correct articulation is used as a feedback to the L2 learners in the applications like computer assisted language learning (CALL).…”

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Automatic Visual Augmentation for Concatenation Based Synthesized Articulatory Videos from Real-time MRI Data for Spoken Language Training

Srinivasan¹,

Yarra

Aggarwal

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Interspeech 2018

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For the benefit of spoken language training, concatenation based articulatory video synthesis has been proposed in the past to overcome the limitation in the articulatory data recording. For this, real time magnetic resonance imaging (rt-MRI) video image-frames (IFs) containing articulatory movements have been used. These IFs require a visual augmentation for better understanding. We, in this work, propose an augmentation method using pixel intensities in the regions enclosed by the articulatory boundaries obtained from air-tissue boundaries (ATBs). Since, the pixel intensities reflect the muscle movements in the articulators, the augmented IFs could provide realistic articulatory movements, when we color them accordingly. However, the ATB manual annotation is time consuming; hence, we propose to synthesize ATBs using the ATBs from a few selected frames that have been used in synthesizing the articulatory videos. We augment a set of synthesized articulatory videos for 50 words obtained from the MRI-TIMIT database. Subjective evaluation on the quality of the augmented videos using twenty-one subjects suggests that the videos are visually more appealing than the respective synthesized rt-MRI videos with a rating of 3.75 out of 5, where a score of 5 (1) indicates that the augmented video quality is excellent (poor).

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“…Although suprasegmental features were not standardized in the CIEFL monograph, the rhythms of (G)IE are notably different from those of most other Englishes. For example, whereas British English is a canonical stress-timed language, IE has most often been characterized as syllable-timed (Gargesh, 2004) or nearly syllable-timed (Babu (1971), cited in Pingali, 2009:34).…”

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The effects of native language on Indian English sounds and timing patterns

Sirsa

Redford

2013

Journal of Phonetics

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This study explored whether the sound structure of Indian English (IE) varies with the divergent native languages of its speakers or whether it is similar regardless of speakers' native languages. Native Hindi (Indo-Aryan) and Telugu (Dravidian) speakers produced comparable phrases in IE and in their native languages. Naïve and experienced IE listeners were then asked to judge whether different sentences had been spoken by speakers with the same or different native language backgrounds. The findings were an interaction between listener experience and speaker background such that only experienced listeners appropriately distinguished IE sentences produced by speakers with different native language backgrounds. Naïve listeners were nonetheless very good at distinguishing between Hindi and Telugu phrases. Acoustic measurements on monophthongal vowels, select obstruent consonants, and suprasegmental temporal patterns all differentiated between Hindi and Telugu, but only 3 of the measures distinguished between IE produced by speakers of the different native languages. The overall results are largely consistent with the idea that IE has a target phonology that is distinct from the phonology of native Indian languages. The subtle L1 effects on IE may reflect either the incomplete acquisition of the target phonology or, more plausibly, the influence of sociolinguistic factors on the use and evolution of IE.

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Indian English

Cited by 49 publications

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Social class across borders: Transnational elites in British ideological space

Social class across borders: Transnational elites in British ideological space

Automatic Visual Augmentation for Concatenation Based Synthesized Articulatory Videos from Real-time MRI Data for Spoken Language Training

The effects of native language on Indian English sounds and timing patterns

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