A contrastive study of prosody and lexical stress placement in Singapore English and British English

Language and Speech

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-56

  Ling, Low Ee ^a   Grabe, Esther ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Lexical stress; Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Varieties of English

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039624869     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00238309990420010201     Document Type: Article

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