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Research on Chinese English (CE) synchronizes with studies on World Englishes. Since the late 197... more Research on Chinese English (CE) synchronizes with studies on World Englishes. Since the late 1970s, Chinese scholars have been studying Chinese English and at the same time introducing World Englishes theories into China. Over the years, Chinese English research has been gaining momentum, particularly since the beginning of the twenty-first century. Previous research on World Englishes has discussed the status of individual varieties of English, particularly whether they constitute independent and stable linguistic systems that have their own features and norms of usage independent from those found in Inner Circle varieties (Kachru 1985). Research on Chinese English encompasses a wide range of issues, including whether it exists, how to name it, how to define it, what its linguistic features are, how people perceive it, and what people's attitudes are towards it. In this chapter, we report on the current status and major issues concerning research on Chinese English, based on a vigorous review of relevant research literature and the chapters within this volume. We also provide a background to this volume and an overview of all the chapters that it contains, and point out trends for researching Chinese English. The overall aim of this chapter, alongside all the chapters of this volume, is to showcase the current state of research on Chinese English.

Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, 4(2), 283-308, 2015

Innovative usage of noun phrases is among the most widely reported features of new varieties of E... more Innovative usage of noun phrases is among the most widely reported features of new varieties of English throughout the world and also in discourse in ELF settings, but its effect on intelligibility has not been extensively investigated. In an attempt to remedy this, 10 conversations in English between Bruneians and people from elsewhere were recorded, and a total of 153 tokens were identified in which the non-Bruneians did not understand the Bruneian speakers. In 20 of these tokens, the grammar of a noun phrase may be one factor in giving rise to the misunderstanding, involving added or absent articles, innovative use of plurals, and the unexpected gender of a pronoun. Further analysis suggests that non-standard grammar was probably the main factor in just four of these tokens, two involving an added article before a proper noun, one with a spurious -s on the end of other, and one in which she was used to refer to a male. There were many instances of non-standard grammar in noun phrases throughout the conversations, but this rarely caused a problem, which suggests that the innovative structure of noun phrases seldom impacts on the intelligibility of Brunei English in ELF settings.

Journal of the International Phonetic Association, , 2006

English World-wide, 2005

In the past, the vowels of Singapore English (SgE) have often been described with reference to Br... more In the past, the vowels of Singapore English (SgE) have often been described with reference to British English (BrE). However, certain idiosyncratic patterns are now emerging, and these often cannot be predicted by referring to any other varieties of English. The vowels in words such as egg, beg, poor, pure, won, one and the first syllable of absorb and abroad are investigated from the data of 38 speakers, and it is shown that a new standard of SgE pronunciation is emerging for the great majority of speakers.

Journal of The International Phonetic Association, 1997

The formants of the eleven monophthong vowels of Standard Southern British (SSB) pronunciation of... more The formants of the eleven monophthong vowels of Standard Southern British (SSB) pronunciation of English were measured for five male and five female BBC broadcasters whose speech was included in the MARSEC database. The measurements were made using linear-prediction-based formant tracks overlaid on digital spectrograms for an average of ten instances of each vowel for each speakers, These measurements were taken from connected speech, allowing comparison with previous formant values measured from citation words. I was found that the male vowels were significantly less peripheral in the measurements from connected speech than in measurements from citation words.

Journal of The International Phonetic Association, 1994

English World-wide, 2003

The formants of the conversational vowels of five male and five female Singapore English (SgE) sp... more The formants of the conversational vowels of five male and five female Singapore English (SgE) speakers are measured and compared with comparable measurements of British English (BrE) in order to gain a comprehensive view of the vowel space of Singaporean speakers and to determine which of the vowel distinctions of BrE are not maintained in SgE. It is found that the distinctions between /i˜/ and /I/ and also /e/ and /ae/ are not maintained in SgE, and any distinction between /f˜/ and /#/ is small. It is also found that SgE /u˜/ is more back than BrE /u˜/. It is further suggested that the fewer number of vowel contrasts in SgE does not contribute to much loss of intelligibility. * This work was partly supported by a grant from NIE Research Project RP 11/99 LEL: "An acoustic analysis of Singapore English with special reference to its pedagogical applications."

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