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David Deterding
Researcher at Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Publications - 104
Citations - 1967
David Deterding is an academic researcher from Universiti Brunei Darussalam. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pronunciation & Varieties of English. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 101 publications receiving 1819 citations. Previous affiliations of David Deterding include National Institute of Education & Nanyang Technological University.
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The Formants of Monophthong Vowels in Standard Southern British English Pronunciation
TL;DR: This article measured the formants of the eleven monophthong vowels of Standard Southern British pronunciation of English using linear-prediction-based formant tracks overlaid on digital spectrograms for an average of ten instances of each vowel for each speaker.
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Emerging South-East Asian Englishes and intelligibility
David Deterding,Andy Kirkpatrick +1 more
TL;DR: The authors investigated features of the pronunciation of this lingua franca and found that only those shared features of pronunciation not shared by speakers from other ASEAN countries resulted in a break-down in communication.
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The measurement of rhythm: a comparison of Singapore and British English
TL;DR: There is a significantly greater variability in this measure of syllable-to-syllable duration for British English than for Singapore English, which supports previous indications that, by comparison, Singapore English might indeed be regarded as being more syllables-timed.
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The pronunciation of English by speakers from China
TL;DR: In this paper, 13 young speakers from north-east, east and central China were recorded reading a passage and participating in a short interview, and their pronunciation was analyzed, and the most salient features of their speech were the use of an epenthetic vowel after word-final plosives especially before another word beginning with a consonant, avoidance of reduced vowels especially in function words, heavy nasalization of vowels preceding a final nasal consonant.
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The pronunciation of Hong Kong English
TL;DR: This paper provided a detailed description of the pronunciation of English by fifteen fourth-year undergraduates at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, and the status of Hong Kong English is considered, particularly the extent of its continuing alignment with an exonormative standard.