Browsing Faculty of Humanities by Author "Bekker, Ian"
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Dentalisation as regional indicator in general South African English: an acoustic analysis of /z/, /d/ and /t/
O'Grady, Cathleen; Bekker, Ian (Taylor & Francis, 2011)Drawing on Bekker's (2007) study on the dentalisation of /s/ among young middle-class females from Johannesburg, this research aims to test whether the other traditionally alveolar oral obstruents, namely /z/, /d/ and /t/, ... -
E.L. Doctorow s fictional autobiography: World s Fair (1985) as a carnivalesque Bildungsroman
Van der Merwe, Philippus Wolrad; Bekker, Ian (2015)In World s Fair (1985) E.L. (Edgar Lawrence) Doctorow (1931 ) artistically transforms autobiographical and historical facts and memories of the actual world of his childhood "into a Bildungsroman. Doctorow was in his fifties ... -
E.L. Doctorow’s fictional autobiography: World’s Fair (1985) as a carnivalesque Bildungsroman
Van der Merwe, Philip; Bekker, Ian (AOSIS, 2015)In World’s Fair (1985) E.L. (Edgar Lawrence) Doctorow (1931–) artistically transforms autobiographical and historical facts and memories of the actual world of his childhood into a Bildungsroman. Doctorow was in his ... -
The formation of South African English
Bekker, Ian (Cambridge University Press, 2013)Of all the major colonial varieties of English, South African English (SAfE) is arguably the most under-studied. Its linguistic history is also one of the most complex, South Africa having been the site of a series of ... -
Nursing the cure: a phonetic analysis of /ʊə/ in South African English
Bekker, Ian (Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, 2013)This article is focused on providing the results of a partially impressionistic and partially acoustic phonetic analysis of the CURE vowel (i.e. /ʊə/ as in cure, tour, sure) in South African English (SAfE) and, in ... -
South African English as a late 19th-century etraterritorial variety
Bekker, Ian (John Benjamins Publishing, 2012)his article argues that the external history of South African English (SAfE) points towards the merits of conceptualizing SAfE as the product of a three-stage koinéization process, the last stage of which takes place ... -
The embedded indexical value of /s/-fronting in Afrikaans and South African English
Bekker, Ian; Levon, Erez (De Gruyter, 2017)This paper examines the indexical value of /s/-fronting in White Afrikaans and in White South African English (WSAfE). Prior research on this feature has shown that fronted articulations of /s/ in WSAfE serve as a regional ...