Gunnel Melchers

The Lesser-Known Varieties of English: The British Isles

1. Introduction Daniel Schreier, Peter Trudgill, Edgar W. Schneider and Jeffrey Williams Part I. The British Isles: 2. Shetlands and Orkney Gunnel Melchers and Peter Sundkvist 3. Channel Islands Mari C. Jones Part II. The Americas and the Caribbean: 4. Canadian maritimes Michael Kiefte 5. Newfoundland and Labrador Sandra Clarke 6. Honduras/Bay Islands Ross Graham 7. White Caribbean Jeffrey P. Williams 8. Bahamas Jeff Reaser, 9. Dominican Kokoy Michael Aceto 10. Anglo-Argentinian English Julian Jefferies Part III. South Atlantic Ocean: 11. Falkland Islands David Britain and Andrea Sudbury 12. St Helena Daniel Schreier 13. Tristan da Cunha Daniel Schreier Part IV. Africa: 14. White Zimbabwean English Susan Fitzmaurice 15. White Kenyan English Thomas Hoffmann Part V. Australasia and Pacific: 16. Eurasian English in Singapore Lionel Wee 17. Peranakans English in Malaysia and Singapore Lisa Lim 18. Norfolk Island and Pitcairn Peter Muhlhausler.

An acoustic analysis of pulmonic ingressive speech in the Shetland Islands.

The use of a pulmonic ingressive airstream mechanism in the pronunciation of certain discourse particles, typically variants of “yes” and “no,” is a well‐known and salient feature of Scandinavian languages. It has been suggested, however, that this may be a more general North Atlantic phenomenon—occurring as far west as Newfoundland and New England—which spread via migration and trade routes. Unfortunately, there seem to be very few audio recordings available from areas other than Scandinavia and Newfoundland (perhaps partly attributable to various elicitation difficulties) and very little acoustic analysis has been presented [E. Thom, MA thesis, UCL (2005); R. Eklund, J. Int. Phonetic Assoc. 38, 235–325 (2008)]. This paper contains a study of ingressive discourse particles in the Shetland Islands, which have strong historical links to Scandinavia. A significant number of ingressives were found in field recordings from 1980–1982. This paper presents an acoustic pilot study of ingressive discourse particle...

A treasury of Englishes

This four-volume publication is the second version, envisaged already at the planning of the project, of the monumental overview of World Englishes, first launched in 2004 as the two-volume Handbook of Varieties of English . The individual contributions, each covering the phonology or morphosyntax of a specific variety, are by and large identical in the 2004 and 2008 versions, but the overall structure is different: the more recent, ‘derived’ version is organized according to region, whereas the two 2004 volumes focused on worldwide phonology and morphosyntax respectively. Admittedly, the new version retains the same organization to a degree, in that each regional volume first features the phonology of all its varieties and then morphosyntax. In my view, this is a pity, as a coherent presentation of a variety would clearly have been more reader-friendly, but it would presumably have required a considerable amount of re-editing.