DAVID DETERDING

Associate Professor
PhD MPhil Camb, BA Durham
   

main research interests: acoustic description of speech, particularly the measurement of vowels, and the description of varieties of English in South-East Asia, such as that of Singapore.

teaching specialities: phonetics, syntax, general linguistics, Chinese-English translation.

Resources

Research Corpora

Development is currently progressing on the following corpora:

The NIE Corpus of Spoken Singapore English

The Lim Siew Hwee Corpus of Informal Singapore Speech

Corpus of Spoken PRC English

The Yeo (2001) Corpus of Sec 2 Compositions

Secondary 2 Data

Hong Kong Data

Scholars are welcome to access these materials for research purposes.

Refereed Papers

Deterding, D., Wong, J. & Kirkpatrick, A. (2008) 'The pronunciation of Hong Kong English'. English World-Wide, 29(2), 148-175.

Deterding, D. (2006) The North Wind versus a Wolf: short texts for the description and measurement of English pronunciation. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 36(2), 187-196.

Deterding, D. & Kirkpatrick, A. (2006) Emerging South-East Asian Englishes and intelligibility. World Englishes, 25(3), 391-409.

Deterding, D. (2006) The pronunciation of English by speakers from China. English World-Wide, 27(2), 175-198.

Deterding, D. (2005) Listening to Estuary English in Singapore. TESOL Quarterly, 39(3), 425-440.

Deterding, D. (2005) Emergent patterns in the vowels of Singapore English. English World-Wide, 26(2), 179-198.

Deterding, D. (2003) An instrumental study of the monophthong vowels of Singapore English. English World-Wide, 24(1), 1-16.

Deterding, D. (2001) The measurement of rhythm: a comparison of Singapore and British English. Journal of Phonetics, 29, 217-230.

Deterding, D. (1997) The Formants of Monophthong Vowels in Standard Southern British English Pronunciation. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 27, 47-55.  (For vowel measurements, click here.)

Deterding, D. (1994) The intonation of Singapore English. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 24(2), 61-72.

Books

Deterding, D (2007) Singapore English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Jones, S A & Deterding, D (2007) Phonics and Beginning Reading: A practical guide for teachers in Southeast Asia. Singapore: McGraw-Hill.

Leong, A, Deterding, D, & Low E L (2006) An Introduction to Linguistics. Singapore: McGraw-Hill.

Deterding, D, Brown, A, & Low E L (2005) English in Singapore : Phonetic Research on a Corpus. Singapore: McGraw-Hill.

Deterding, D, Low E L, & Brown A (2003) English in Singapore : Research on Grammar. Singapore: McGraw-Hill.

Brown, A, Deterding, D & Low E L (2000) The English Language in Singapore: Research on Pronunciation. Singapore: Singapore Association for Applied Linguistics.

Deterding, D & Poedjosoedarmo, G (2001) The Grammar of English: Morphology and Syntax for English Teachers in Southeast Asia. Singapore: Prentice Hall.

Deterding, D & Poedjosoedarmo, G (1998) The Sounds of English: Phonetics and Phonology for English Teachers in Southeast Asia. Singapore: Prentice Hall. (Listening Materials)

Other Articles

Deterding, D. (2006) The Vowels of the Different Ethnic Groups in Singapore. In D Prescott (ed.), English in Southeast Asia: Varieties, Literacies and Literatures (pp. 2-29). Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishers.

Deterding, D. & Nolan, F. (2007) Aspiration and Voicing in Chinese and English plosives, Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken, 6-10 August, 2007, pp. 385-9. (PDF version)

Deterding, D. (2006) Reduced vowels in SE Asia: should we be teaching them? SOUTHEAST ASIA: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 6(1), 71-78. (PDF version)

Deterding, D. (2006) Deletion of final /t/ and /d/ in BBC English: implications for teachers in Singapore. STETS Language & Communication Review, 5(1), 21-23. (PDF version)

Setter, J. and Deterding, D. (2003) Extra final consonants in the English of Hong Kong and Singapore. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, 3-9 August, 2003. (PDF version)

Deterding, D. & Low Ee Ling (2001). The NIE Corpus of Spoken Singapore English. SAAL Quarterly No 56 Nov 2001, 2-5.

Deterding, D. (1999). Potential Influences of Chinese on the Written English of Singapore. In Brown, A. (ed.) Proceedings of the Fourth 'English in Southeast Asia' conference, NIE, 22-24 November 1999. pp. 201-209. (HTML version)

Deterding, D. (1998). Approaches to Diglossia in the Classroom: The Middle Way. REACT, 2, 18-23. (HTML Version)

Deterding, D. & Hvitfeldt, R. (1994) The features of Singapore English Pronunciation: Implications for teachers. Teaching and Learning, 15 (1), 98-107. (PDF version)

Deterding, D. (1994) The rhythm of Singapore English. In Togneri, R (ed) Proceedings of the Fifth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Perth, December 1994, pp. 316-321. (PDF version)

Book Reviews

Review of : Aitchison, Jean (1996) The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. SAAL Quarterly No 52 November 2000 pp.12-14.

Review of : Alderman, Tony (2005) Forensic Speaker Identification. Munich: Lincom LINGUIST List 17.549, Sun Feb 19 2006.

Review of : Ashby, Michael & Maidment, John (2005) Introducing Phonetic Science. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 16(3), 282-285.

Review of : Bauer, Laurie and Trudgill, Peter (eds.) (1998) Language Myths. London: Penguin. STETS Language & Communication Review, Vol 2 No 2, p. 29.

Review of : Brown, Adam (2003) English Language Myths: 30 Beliefs that Aren't Really True. Singapore: McGraw Hill. SAAL Quarterly No 61 April 2003 pp.10-11.

Review of : Bybee, Joan (2001) Phonology and Language Use, Cambridge University Press. Phonetica, 2004, 61:252-253.

Review of : Coleman, John (2005) Introducing Speech and Language Processing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press LINGUIST List 16.2246, Sun Jul 24 2005.

Review of : Conrad, Susan & Biber, Douglas (eds, 2001) Variation in English: Multi-Dimensional Studies. Harlow: Longman. SAAL Quarterly 59, August 2002, pp. 5-7.

Review of : Cook, Vivian (ed.) (2003) Effects of the Second Language on the First. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. SAAL Quarterly 64.

Review of : Cruttenden, Alan (2001) Gimson's Pronunciation of English (6th Edition). London: Arnold Publishers. LINGUIST List 12.2217, Mon Sep 10 2001.

Review of : Crystal, David (2001) Language and the Internet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, STETS Language & Communication Review, Vol 3, No 1, 2004, pp. 27-28.

Review of : Crystal, David (2000) Language Death. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, STETS Language & Communication Review, Vol 5, No 1, 2006, pp. 35.

Review of : Davenport, Mike and Hannahs, S J (1998) Introducing Phonetics and Phonology. Arnold (UK), Oxford University Press (USA). LINGUIST List 10.989. Fri Jun 25 1999.

Review of : Finch, Geoffrey (2003) Word of Mouth: An Introduction to Language and Communication. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan. SAAL Quarterly No 63 Aug 2003 pp.9-11.

Review of : Fox, A (2000) Prosodic Features and Prosodic Structure. Arnold (UK), Oxford: Oxford University Press. LINGUIST List 14-1288. Tue May 6 2003.

Review of : Hammond, Michael (1999) The Phonology of English: A Prosodic Optimality-Theoretic Approach. Oxford:Oxford University Press. 1999. LINGUIST List 11.87. Mon Jan 17 2000.

Review of : Hardcastle, W J & Mackenzie Beck, J (eds.) (2005) A Figure of Speech: A Festschrift for John Laver. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 35, 239-242.

Review of : Haywood, Katrina (2000) Experimental Phonetics. Harlow:Longman. SAAL Quarterly No 57 February 2002 pp.5-6.

Review of : Hung, Feng-Sheng (1996) Prosody and the Acquisition of Grammatical Morphemes in Chinese Languages. Indiana University Linguistics Club: Bloomington, Indiana. LINGUIST List 8.1024, Mon Jul 7 1997.

Review of : Jenkins, Jennifer (2000) The Phonology of English as an International Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Speak Out! Issue 27, February 2001, pp. 38-39.

Review of : Kennedy, Graeme (1998) In Introduction to Corpus Linguistics, Harlow: Longman SAAL Quarterly No 58 May 2002 pp.2-4.

Review of : Kuiper, Koenraad & Allan, W Scott (2003) An Introduction to English Language: Word, Sound Sentence (2nd Edition), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 34(2), pp. 217-220.

Review of : Ladd, D Robert (1996) Intonational Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. SAAL Quarterly No 46 May 1999 pp.5-7.

Review of : Ladefoged, Peter (2003) Phonetic Data Analysis: An Introduction to Fieldwork and Instrumental Techniques, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. SAAL Quarterly No 66 May 2004 pp.8-10.

Review of : Leong, Alvin (2004) Theme and Rheme: An Alternative Account, Bern: Peter Lang. SAAL Quarterly No 67 August 2004 pp.6-9.

Review of : Lim, Lisa (ed.) (2004) Singapore English: A Grammatical Description. English World-Wide, 27(1), 106-109.

Review of : Local, John, Ogden, Richard & Temple, Rosalind (2003) Phonetic Interpretation: Papers in Laboratory Phonology VI. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. LINGUIST List 15.3336, Fri Nov 26 2004.

Review of : Low Ee Ling & Brown, Adam (2004). English in Singapore: An Introduction. Singapore: McGraw-Hill. SAAL Quarterly No 69 February 2005.

Review of : McArthur, Tom (1998). The English Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. SAAL Quarterly No 52 November 2000 pp.10-12.

Review of : McMahon, April (2000). Lexical Phonology and the History of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  LINGUIST List 12.1210, Wed May 2 2001.

Review of : Mugglestone, Lynda (2003). 'Talking Proper': The Rise of Accent as a Social Symbol. Oxford University Press. LINGUIST List 14.2117 Sun Aug 10 2003.

Review of : Napoli, D Language Matters: A Guide to Everyday Thinking about Language, Language and Education, 2005, Vol. 19 No. 4, pp. 342-343.

Review of : Niedzielski, Nancy A & Preston, Dennis R (2000) Folk Linguistics, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 16(1), 111-112

Review of : Ooi, Vincent B Y (ed 2001). Evolving Identities: The English Language in Singapore and Malaysia, Singapore: Times Academic Press. English World-Wide, 23(2) 324-9.

Review of : Ouhalla, Jamal (1999). Transformational Grammar: From Principles and Parameters to Minimalism (2nd Edition). London: Arnold. SAAL Quarterly No 60 November 2002 pp.2-4.

Review of : Pan, Yuling, Suzanne Wong Scollon and Ron Scollon (2002) Professional Communication in International Settings. Blackwell Publishers LINGUIST List 13.1422 Tue May 21 2002.

Review of : Penhalluric, Rob (2003). Studying the English Language. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. SAAL Quarterly 65.

Review of : Radford, Andrew. (1997). Syntactic Theory and the Structure of English – A Minimalist Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. SAAL Quarterly No 45 February 1999 pp.4-8.

Review of : Radford, A, Atkinson, M, Britain, D, Clahsen, H, & Spencer, A (1999). Linguistics: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. SAAL Quarterly No 47 August 1999 pp.5-9.

Review of : Roach, Peter (2001). Phonetics. Oxford University Press. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 32(2), 223-4.

Review of : Roca, Iggy & Johnson, Wyn (1999). A Course in Phonology. Oxford University Press. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 32(2), 233-6.

Review of : Schiller, Niels O & Meyer, Antje S (eds, 2003), Phonetics and Phonology in Language Comprehension and Production: Differences and Similarities, Mouton de Gruyter. Phonetica, 2005, 62.

Review of : Seidlhofer, Barbara (2003) Controversies in Applied Linguistics. Oxford University Press. LINGUIST List 16.623, Wed Mar 02 2005.

Review of : Shockey, Linda (2003). Sound Patterns of Spoken English. Blackwell. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 33(2), 252-4.

Review of : Smith, Neil. (1999). Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. SAAL Quarterly No 50 May 2000.

Review of : Wennerstrom, Ann (2001) The Music of Everyday Speech: Prosody and Discourse Analysis. Oxford University Press. LINGUIST List 13.845 Wed Mar 27 2002.

Translations

Wu Chin-fa, 'Late-Blooming Osmanthus'. Translated by David & Ellen Deterding. The Chinese PEN, Winter 2006, 12-25.

Chang Ying-tai, 'Building a Nest in a New Location'. Translated by David & Ellen Deterding. The Chinese PEN, Summer 2006, 92-138.

Yao Yni Ying, 'Remembering Li Jing'. Translated by David & Ellen Deterding. The Chinese PEN, Spring 2006, 3-11.

Yu Mei Chi, 'Secrets of the Starry Sky'. Translated by David & Ellen Deterding. The Chinese PEN, Summer 2004, 37-59.

Li Wen Yueh, 'Night Talk'. Translated by David & Ellen Deterding. The Chinese PEN, Spring 2004, 32-44.

Fu Chang, 'Soaring Tower'. Translated by David & Ellen Deterding. The Chinese PEN, Autumn 2003, 19-36.

Pai Hsien-yung, 'Even the Tree Isn't the Same'. Translated by David & Ellen Deterding. The Chinese PEN, Spring 2003, 8-36.

Chiang Hsun, 'The Seventies'. Translated by David & Ellen Deterding. The Chinese PEN, Winter 2001, 71-80.

Ku Meng-jen, 'The Prize-Giving Ceremony'. Translated by David & Ellen Deterding. The Chinese PEN, Winter 2000, 35-51.

Bo Yang, Secrets: A Collection of Short Stories. Translated by David Deterding. Boston: Cheng & Tsui. 1985. ISBN: 0-88727-037-9.

Former NIE Courses

Photos

Angkor

UK-2003

Laos

Nepal

Alexander and Wai May's wedding

Contact Information

Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics,
Universiti Brunei Darussalam,
Jalan Tungku Link,
Gadong BE 1410,
Brunei Darussalam.

email: dhdeter (at) gmail.com