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  • Chapter 16 - Aspects of Sentence Intonation in Black South African English

  • from III - Language Interfaces
  • Edited by Raymond Hickey, Universität Duisburg–Essen
  • Book:
    English in Multilingual South Africa
    Published online:
    07 November 2019
    Print publication:
    21 November 2019, pp 329-349

  • Summary

    The present chapter provides a detailed look at intonation used for the marking of new and given information in Black South African English (BSAfE). Studies show that, when listening to English, speakers of BSAfE perceive differences in prosody and prominence. Prosodic cues in the signal lead to prosodic entrainment which facilitates processing in speakers of BSAfE. However, speakers/listeners do not show metalinguistic awareness of the prosodic cues nor are these actively produced in their own speech. The findings for intonational marking of information structure in BSAfE are framed by related observations for other varieties of English in order to locate the intonational features of BSAfE in the wider context of intonation in New Englishes. The observed changes in the intonation systems of many New Englishes point to a certain instability of focus prosody.