Linguistic insecurity in Singapore through the lens of lingual voice quality settings

• Main Author: Low, Joel Yong Sik
• Other Authors: Scott Reid Moisik
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics; Humanities::Linguistics::Phonetics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138259
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis examines the voice quality setting of the tongue when Singaporeans speak with a fellow Singaporean as opposed to a traditionally “native” speaker of inner-circle English. In so doing, we hope to add to the discourse surrounding Singaporean English by considering how the ethnicity of our...