English in Singapore: Phonetic Research on a Corpus

Edited by David Deterding, Adam Brown and Low Ee Ling

McGraw-Hill Asia (Education), 2005

Chapter 2 : A checklist of Singapore English pronunciation features (Adam Brown and David Deterding)

• pitch range : (listen) I think it's my character because erm for me I wanted to actually erm cover the whole country … which was not quite possible in such a short span of time.
• rhythm : (listen) In Singapore we don’t eat cold crabs at all
• intonation - fall : (listen) looking after the kids ... on the whole it was quite an enjoyable experience … yeah
• intonation - rise : (listen) I went to Pulau Ubin cycling
• intonation - rise-fall : (listen) All the shops closes at nine ... no, at five
• main sentence stress : (listen) I would most probably be teaching English
• stressed words : (listen) knowing how to answer every questions posed to me
• compound stress : (listen) having back-aches, neck-aches and all
• contrast : (listen) the maximum loan period is actually thirty years
• final lengthening : (listen) So I don't feel so sleepy
• word stress (1) : (listen) No, I was from the polytechnic
• word stress (2) : (listen) Europe
• long/short vowels : (listen) it's very scenic
• open front vowels : (listen) colouring pencils of different brands
• /ei/ diphthong : (listen) we spent about two days in Brisbane
• /ou/ diphthong : (listen) knowing how to answer every questions posed to me
• syllable-final voicing : (listen) four days
• initial dental fricatives : (listen) I've not thought of that before
• final dental fricatives : (listen) and holidays with my parents
• final /l/ : (listen) all the way until the end of ... teaching practice
• rhotic accent : (listen) I was only taking four subjects
• unaspirated /p/ : (listen) the peach blossoms are
• glottal stop : (listen) after coming back I was totally tired out
• consonant cluster simplification : (listen) we’ll be staying at Gold Coast