TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zerbian, Sabine
T1  - Prosodic marking of narrow focus across varieties of South African English
T2  - English world-wide : a journal of varieties of English
N2  - This paper reports on an elicited production study which investigates prosodic marking of narrow focus in modified noun phrases in varieties of South African English. The acoustic analysis of fundamental frequency, intensity, and duration in narrow focus is presented and discussed. The results suggest that these three acoustic parameters are manipulated differently in narrow focus in the varieties of English as a Second Language as compared to General South African English. The article compares the results to what is known about prosodic marking of information structure in other varieties of English as a Second Language and underlines the necessity of carefully controlled data in the investigation of phonological and phonetic variation in varieties of English.
KW  - South African English
KW  - Black South African English
KW  - English as a Second Language (ESL)
KW  - prosody
KW  - focus
KW  - fundamental frequency
KW  - intensity
KW  - duration
KW  - contact variety
Y1  - 2013
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/35388
SN  - 0172-8865
VL  - 34
IS  - 1
SP  - 26
EP  - 47
PB  - Benjamins
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -