Rohini Widyalankara

Broschiertes Buch

Tamil/Other Variety of Sri Lankan English speech communities

Incorporating Tamil English to the Taxonomy of Sri Lankan English pronunciation

Beschreibung

This book examines dialectal variation in Sri Lankan English (SLE) pronunciation through a taxonomic vantage where the architecture is scrutinized through deviations in lexical pronunciation. The status of Tamil English is examined and empirical validation is procured for its recognition as a separate entity in the taxonomy of SLE pronunciation. This validation is constructed through the analysis of the % rate of occurrence of 10 pronunciation characteristics unique in Tamil/Other Variety of Sri Lankan English (T/OVSLE) bilinguals. These features deviate from Standard Sri Lankan English (SSLE) as well as the pronunciation of Sinhala/Other Variety of Sri Lankan English (S/OVSLE) bilinguals. 486 participants selected through stratified random sampling measures provide data across an instrument of 50 word tokens. The word tokens represent 7 common areas of pronunciation and 10 unique to T/OVSLE bilinguals and were randomly shortlisted from literature on SLE and learner English pronunciation of bilinguals with Tamil as their first language. Analyzed data evidences a zero occurrence of the 10 features unique to T/OVSLE bilinguals in lexical elicitations of the S/OVSLE population.

Autor

Rohini Chandrica Widyalankara B. A. (English), M. Ed. (TESL), M. Phil. (Linguistics), Diploma in TESP, Certificate in TESOL Methods is a Senior Lecturer at the English Language Teaching Unit, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. Her research interests are Contact Linguistics, Documentary Linguistics, Applied Linguistics and Sri Lankan English.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 489g
• ISBN-13: 9783659627583
• ISBN-10: 3659627585
• Artikelnr.: 41670123