Indian English Pronunciation

Pandey, Pramod Kumar

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“…They also differ from Maxwell & Fletcher's (2010) account of Hindi English and Punjabi English in that we did not find the diphthongs /ɪɘ, eə, ʊə/ in words like NEAR, SQUARE, and CURE respectively, but rather monophthongs /i, e, u/. The results are well aligned with Pandey's (2015) description of General Indian English (GIE) in terms of the monophthongs, but less aligned in terms of the diphthongs. Pandey's (2015) monophthong inventory, reproduced in Figure 1, also contains 11 vowels; the only difference is that in our results the vowel in words like FATHER is almost equal in backness to [ʊ] (see Figure 3), so we have decided to treat it as the low back Babu's (1976) and Pandey's (2015) claims that [ə] occurs in both stressed and unstressed syllables without /ʌ/ ever appearing in any of those environments.…”

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“…In addition to this, he claims that /ə/ occurs in both stressed and unstressed syllables in TE, therefore not making use of /ʌ/ like in RP English (Babu, 1976, p. 43). Pandey's (2015) study of 'General Indian English' (GIE) also acknowledges the use of schwa in both stressed and unstressed syllables, but provides a slightly different account of the monophthongs, as shown in Figure 1 (Note 3). According to Pandey (2015, p. 305), "[t]he diphthongs that occur on the surface are [five] in number: /aɪ, aʊ, ɔɪ, ɪə, ʊə/" (Note 4), occurring in words like PRICE, MOUTH, CHOICE, NEAR and CURE, respectively.…”

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Phonology and Phonetics of L2 Telugu English

Pisegna¹,

Volenec²

2021

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The paper provides a partial phonological and phonetic description of the segmental structure of L2 Telugu English (TE). Previous research on the subject has been carried out in the context of a more general notion of Indian English (IE), so the properties of TE as distinct from other varieties of IE (e.g., Gujarati English) have largely remained unexplored. We have primarily focused on areas that previous research identified as prominent issues in the study of IE: vowel inventory and production, representation and realization of liquids, word-final obstruent phenomena, and allophones of /w/. To account for these aspects of TE, we have combined a generative approach to the study of an individual’s linguistic competence with linguistic fieldwork as a means of collecting first-hand data. On the basis of collected data, we have conducted a spectrographic analysis of TE vowels and a distributional analysis of TE consonants. The paper provides the first description of the acoustic spaces of TE vowels. We found that all vowels except [?] and [i] are more central in TE than in General American English. /r/ was realized as either [r] or [?] without a specific pattern, and occasionally as [?] in the intervocalic position. /l/ was realized as [?] in word-final position and as [l] elsewhere. TE displayed word-final obstruent devoicing for all obstruents except for /b/, which was consistently unreleased. /w/ was realized as [?] before front vowels and as [w] elsewhere. While previous research that concentrated on the broad notion of Indian English recognized the issue of /w/-allophony, it has not provided a principle that governs the exact distribution of /w/’s allophones. By combining the generative framework with linguistic fieldwork, we have accounted for this long-standing puzzle with a single rule: /w/ ? [?] / __ [–CONS, –BACK].

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Phonology and Phonetics of L2 Telugu English

Pisegna¹,

Volenec²

2021

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“…Indian English pronunciation evolved as a variety out of an attempt by its early users to acquire British RP. The influences of RP, with which listeners are likely more familiar, are still apparent in Indian English (see Pandey, ). Thus, listeners who are comfortable listening to RP might be able to bootstrap on this experience when processing the Indian English variety.…”

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The Effects of International Accents and Shared First Language on Listening Comprehension Tests

2018

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This study examines the effect of incorporating a variety of international English accents into a simulated TOEFL listening comprehension test in growing recognition of internationalization of language teaching and learning in the field of TESOL. Although some highstakes English proficiency exams have begun incorporating speech samples produced by speakers from a range of inner circle Englishspeaking backgrounds (e.g., Britain, the United States, Australia), the inclusion of samples produced by speakers of outer and expanding circle English varieties (e.g., India, Nigeria, Mexico, South Korea) has been largely avoided. For this study the researchers recruited speakers from six distinct English varieties to produce speech samples for a mock TOEFL iBT listening exam. Listeners who spoke with the same six international English accents were then recruited to take the resulting tests. Results indicate that when accented English is highly comprehensible, listening test scores for stimuli based on high-proficiency speakers of outer and expanding circle varieties of English are not significantly lower than they are in response to stimuli based on inner circle varieties of English. With respect to a shared first language effect on test scores when test materials are spoken in the test taker's own accent, results are complex but inconclusive.

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“…English is a collection of accents that are very different from each other. Besides the many native accents, studies of World Englishes have shown us that there are many nativized accents such as varieties of Indian English (Pandey, 2015), Singaporean English, Nigerian English, etc. These different accents are especially appropriate models in their own contexts, as well as being appropriate though less familiar than well-known L1 accents in other areas of the world.…”

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Teaching pronunciation: Truths and lies

Levis¹

2022

Exploring Language Education: Global and Local Perspectives

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Indian English Pronunciation

Cited by 8 publications

References 26 publications

Phonology and Phonetics of L2 Telugu English

Phonology and Phonetics of L2 Telugu English

The Effects of International Accents and Shared First Language on Listening Comprehension Tests

Teaching pronunciation: Truths and lies

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