Age as a factor in ethnic accent identification in Singapore

This study seeks to answer two research questions. First, can listeners distinguish the ethnicity of the speakers on the basis of voice quality alone? Second, do demographic differences among the listeners affect discriminability? A simple but carefully designed and controlled ethnic identification...

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Main Author: Tan, Ying Ying
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Published: 2013
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-980312020-03-07T12:10:40Z Age as a factor in ethnic accent identification in Singapore Tan, Ying Ying School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics This study seeks to answer two research questions. First, can listeners distinguish the ethnicity of the speakers on the basis of voice quality alone? Second, do demographic differences among the listeners affect discriminability? A simple but carefully designed and controlled ethnic identification test was carried out on 325 Singaporean informants of the three major ethnic groups across three age groups in Singapore. The results show interesting age-related patterns in the identification of ethnicity in speakers of Singapore English. The results suggest that young Singaporeans may perhaps be deaf to ethnic variations. National policies and one's own ethnic consciousness (or lack thereof) may perhaps be responsible for creating this ‘deafness’. 2013-11-06T05:05:43Z 2019-12-06T19:49:51Z 2013-11-06T05:05:43Z 2019-12-06T19:49:51Z 2012 2012 Journal Article Tan, Y. Y. (2012). Age as a factor in ethnic accent identification in Singapore. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 33(6), 569-587. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98031 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/17337 10.1080/01434632.2012.682730 en Journal of multilingual and multicultural development
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Age as a factor in ethnic accent identification in Singapore
description This study seeks to answer two research questions. First, can listeners distinguish the ethnicity of the speakers on the basis of voice quality alone? Second, do demographic differences among the listeners affect discriminability? A simple but carefully designed and controlled ethnic identification test was carried out on 325 Singaporean informants of the three major ethnic groups across three age groups in Singapore. The results show interesting age-related patterns in the identification of ethnicity in speakers of Singapore English. The results suggest that young Singaporeans may perhaps be deaf to ethnic variations. National policies and one's own ethnic consciousness (or lack thereof) may perhaps be responsible for creating this ‘deafness’.
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